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— Francois de La Rochefoucauld"We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others."
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The laws of custom make our [returning a visit] necessary. O how I hate this vile custom which obliges us to make slaves of ourselves! to sell the most precious property we boast, our time;--and to sacrifice it to every prattling impertinent who chooses to demand it!
— Fanny Burney
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As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who sets up for a saint is sure to be a sinner; and a man who boasts that he is a sinner is sure to have some feeble, maudlin, snivelling bit of saintship about him which is enough to make him a humbug.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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