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Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.

— Nicolas Chamfort

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Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he’s always ready to escape their control.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.

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There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a château does to its owner.

The only thing that stops God sending a second Flood is that the first one was useless.

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