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• Never speak ill of yourself; your friends will always say enough on that subject.
• Women sometimes forgive a man who forces the opportunity, but never a man who misses one.
  -- Charles De Talleyrand-Perigord...
• In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily." Charles, Count Talleyrand
• The surest road to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill
  Most of those evils we poor mortals know, From doctors and imagination flow....
• Lovers are never tired of each other, though they always speak of themselves.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 312...
• The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.
  -- Alfred De Musse...
• It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree.
  For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree....