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Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.Unknown
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One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.Unknown
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Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring.Unknown
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A weakling is incapable of sincerity.Unknown
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If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.Unknown
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The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.Unknown
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87.–Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other. [A maxim, adds Aimé Martin, "Which may enter into the code of a vulgar rogue, but one is astonished to find it in a moral treatise." Yet we have scriptural authority for it: "Deceiving and being deceived."–2 TIM. iii. 13.]Unknown