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• The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body; what we take to be a cure… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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• What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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• Virtue is too often merely local. — Samuel Johnson
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