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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 34673 |
| QUOTATION: | We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives behind them. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–80), French writer, moralist. Sentences et Maximes Morales, no. 409 (1678). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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