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Word Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.
- Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
- Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary…
- The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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