Six Word Memoirs III

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--- Jancee Dunn

From Not Quite What I Was Planning,  Six-word memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure.

Wounds and deficiencies

One should conceal one's wounds and hide the crippling deficiencies of life -- poverty, misfortune, sickness, ill-success.  People begin by being touched and moved to tenderness by their friends' distress; presently this changes to pity, which has something humiliating about it; then to a masterful giving of advice; and then to scorn. 

--Senac de Meilhan 

Quoted in "The Far Side of the World" by Patrick O'Brian