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Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.

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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

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Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.

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Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

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To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

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The idle always have a mind to do something.

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Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

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You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

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Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

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The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: August 6th, 1715

Died: May 28th, 1747

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