It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIt 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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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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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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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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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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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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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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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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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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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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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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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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