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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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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Big Fools Love Small
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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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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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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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
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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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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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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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Empty Laughter Life
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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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Chance Kind Lose Word
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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