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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.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak.
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Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
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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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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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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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Humor is wit and love.
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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
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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 I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don’t know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.
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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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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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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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