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La Rochefoucauld 408: The most dangerous folly of old persons who have been loveable is to forget t...
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The most dangerous folly of old persons who have been loveable is to forget that they are no longer so. ["Every woman who is not absolutely ugly thinks herself handsome. The suspicion of age no woman, let her be ever so old, forgives."--Lord Chesterfield, Letter 129.]
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François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) · laroch_408
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