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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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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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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
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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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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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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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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
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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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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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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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