Pride more often than ignorance makes us refuse to accept new ideas finding the first places taken in the intellectual parade, we refuse to take the last.
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To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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