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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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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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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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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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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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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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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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Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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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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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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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.
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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