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Rochefoucauld which is distressing to sentimentalists.
Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France Edmund Gosse 1888
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La Rochefoucauld observed, "We always get bored with those whom we bore."
Gretchen Rubin: 6 Tips for Fighting Boredom Gretchen Rubin 2010
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"Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue," after all, as La Rochefoucauld tells us.
Mark Matousek: Oh, Jesus: The GOP Roundtable That Stank To High Heaven Mark Matousek 2011
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"Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue," after all, as La Rochefoucauld tells us.
Mark Matousek: Oh, Jesus: The GOP Roundtable That Stank To High Heaven Mark Matousek 2011
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The international audience—in addition to Princess Grace, it included Marie-Helene de Rothschild, the Duchesse de la Rochefoucauld , C.Z. Guest and Mrs. Winston Churchill —saw that the Americans had something fresh to offer the fashion world, something that spoke eloquently to the moment.
U.S. Fashion's First Voice Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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La Rochefoucauld observed, "We always get bored with those whom we bore."
Gretchen Rubin: 6 Tips for Fighting Boredom Gretchen Rubin 2010
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Like Pascal, La Rochefoucauld and Flaubert, she liked nothing better than to unsaddle human pieties.
A Supremely Disabused Writer André Aciman 2011
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In the Philosophy, some of his remarks have the penetrating desolation we associate with maximists like La Rochefoucauld and Chamfort.
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La Rochefoucauld observed, "We always get bored with those whom we bore."
Gretchen Rubin: 6 Tips for Fighting Boredom Gretchen Rubin 2010
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In the Philosophy, some of his remarks have the penetrating desolation we associate with maximists like La Rochefoucauld and Chamfort.
John Updike R.I.P 2009
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