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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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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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Dare Inspirational Oppression World Yourself
Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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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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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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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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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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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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Herself Myself Mystery Puzzle Woman
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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
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Angry Creation Harm Intend Ourselves Wound

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