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La Rochefoucauld 227: Lucky people are bad hands at correcting their faults; they always believe th...
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Lucky people are bad hands at correcting their faults; they always believe that they are right when fortune backs up their vice or folly. ["The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit."--Swift, Thoughts On Various Subjects]
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François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) · laroch_227
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