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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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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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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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To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained – who can say this is not greatness?
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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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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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute’s delay or advance.
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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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Humor is wit and love.
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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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