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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
Desire to appear clever often prevents our becoming so.
[Le désir de paraître habile empêche souvent de le devenir.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶199 (1665-1678) [tr. Tancock (1959)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
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A quotation from Josh Billings
“Happy as a king,” iz a libel on happiness, and on the king to.
[“Happy as a king,” is a libel on happiness, and on the king, too.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Everybody’s Friend, Or; Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, ch. 156 “Affurisms: Embers on the Harth” (1874)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/billings-josh/77058/
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A quotation from Rothfuss, Patrick:
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You see, there’s a fundamental connection between seeming and being. Every Fae child knows this, but you mortals never seem to see. We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.
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https://wist.info/rothfuss-patrick/60163/#quote #quotes #quotation #appearance #being #innerself #integrity #mask #outerself #persona #pretence #seeming