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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: french
Birth: September 15, 1613 - March 17, 1680

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Desire Politeness Oneself Polite

I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond.

Beautiful Football Baseball Think

We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.

Pain Reveal Conceal Our Successes

Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.

Jessica Savitch

Honor Gang Racial Riots Wars

In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.

Look Policy West Being Started Us

At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.

Tea Party Nothing More Root Than

Isn't it great to go race for 16 days straight?

Great Go Race Days Straight

The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.

Jason Alexander

Work Job Go Years Pleasure Greatest

I think our kids live an extraordinarily different life than what I lived growing up. Pretty much everything about their life is different than mine was.

Life Live Growing Up Think Growing

Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.

Funny Fun People Stand Up Think Go

I've always been aware of both how extraordinarily normal and how extraordinarily extraordinary my life has been. It's always been important, first to my parents when I was younger, and now very much to me, to live in the world. I would never want to live in a cloister.

Chelsea Clinton

Life Live Parents Me World My Life

Part of why I like watercolor is that mistakes are visible, and you can't really repair much. It has to look easy. When it comes out, it looks easy, but to get to that point takes a lot of doing.

Mistakes Doing Easy You Look Looks

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.

Father Me Book Library Always Both

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