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• The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
  -- La Rochefoucauld...
• Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
  -- La Rochefoucauld...
• The most certain sign of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure which is useful to them, to praise which deceives them.
  -- La Rochefoucauld...
• How it is that our memory is able to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
  -- Duc de La Rochefoucauld...
• In the intercourse of life we please, often, by our defects than by our good qualities.
  -- La Rochefoucauld...
• We confess little faults in order to suggest that we have no big ones.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• We have all sufficient strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 19...
• Gibson's Springtime Song (to the tune of "Deck the Halls")
  'Tis the season to chase mousies (Fa la la la la, la la la la) Snatch them from their little housies (....