It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
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We sometimes see a fool possessed of talent, But never of judgment.
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Few persons know how to be old.
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