Quotes with foible

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• Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.

  Laurence Sterne
  British author (1713 - 1768)
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• The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.

  Francois de la Rochefoucauld
  French writer (1613 - 1680)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• positiveness
• handsome
• triumph
• defeat
• common
• forget

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