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François de La Rochefoucauld
“The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

George Bernard Shaw
“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
George Bernard Shaw

Plato
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
Plato

Marcel Proust
“It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.”
Marcel Proust

Anaïs Nin
“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
Anaïs Nin

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