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The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.
Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld, French philosopher,
Sentences et Maximes Morales
, 1678
Posted on July 20, 1999 at 8:14 PM
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