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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.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Fools Man Wisdom Yourself
If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Bury Death Heart Love Yourself
It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
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Best Choice Doubt Fools Love Wisdom
Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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Active Confidence Friendship Man Modesty Peace
What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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Charm Money Peace
Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
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Children Education Fate Honor Luck Training
Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
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Book Expression Fiction Happiness heavy History Laughter Life Live Myself Old Society Time
Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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Jealous Regard Rival Strong Woman
Pray God, keep us simple.
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God Prayer Simplicity
Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do. The successful people don’t always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.
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Action Born Establishment Habit People Success Work
Humor is wit and love.
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Humor Intelligence Love One Liner Smart
An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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Believe Life Mortal Percentage
A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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Enemy Fools Himself See
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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Goodness Intellectual Live Man Social
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Achievement Excellence Happiness Praise
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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Admire Greatness Happiness Learning Life Right Spirit Worship

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