I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYEvery 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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Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
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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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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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Humor is wit and love.
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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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