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Juan Rufa said--"There are two classes of persons who are inconsolable,
the rich on the point of death, and women on the departure of their
beauty." He said, on another occasion, "that he who defined a compliment
to be an agreeable falsehood, which serves as a net to catch dupes, was
not far short of the truth, since the greater part of compliments are
expressions directly at variance with internal conviction."
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Dice are said to have been invented by Palamedes, at the siege of Troy,
for the amusement of the soldiers.
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