Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYNever marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
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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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Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, “Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.”
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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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.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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