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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying."

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"The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying."

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"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."

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