"We speak little if not egged on by…" — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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• We say little, when vanity does not make us speak. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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• There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly. — Michel de Montaigne
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• We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld