Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.
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There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be thought so.
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding.
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The head is ever the dupe of the heart.
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Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.
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