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La Rochefoucauld 138: A man would rather say evil of himself than say nothing.
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A man would rather say evil of himself than say nothing. ["Montaigne's vanity led him to talk perpetually of himself, and as often happens to vain men, he would rather talk of his own failings than of any foreign subject."-- Hallam, Literature Of Europe.]
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François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) · laroch_138
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