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• Conceit causes more conversation than wit. -- LaRouchefoucauld
• Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. -- William Hazli
• The increasingly rapid pace of life today causes more problems than it solves.
• How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -- Marcus Aureliu
• As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
  Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him....