"People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy."

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Jane Austen, British Writer

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Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

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"Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet."

"As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease."

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"People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy."