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It is easier to appear worthy of a position one do
It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"Maximes", 164, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 919-20, 1922.
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