XLVIII.--A confidence in being able to please is often an infallible m… — Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims — François de La Rochefoucauld

XLVIII.--A confidence in being able to please is often an infallible means of being displeasing. (1665, No. 256.)

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