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Do 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.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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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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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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One of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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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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