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Avoid affectation. The more merit, the less affectation, which gives a vulgar flavor. The most eminent merits lose most by it, for they appear proud and artificial instead of being the product of nature, and the natural is always more pleasing than the artificial. One always feels sure that the man who affects a virtue has it not.

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You have to appear wiser and more prudent than is required by the people you are dealing with if you want to give a high opinion of yourself.

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When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.

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