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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
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You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
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Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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