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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.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don’t want a rose to sing.
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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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Frequent the company of your betters.
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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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Pray God, keep us simple.
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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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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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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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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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