No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYDo not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.
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The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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