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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
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Book Expression Fiction Happiness heavy History Laughter Life Live Myself Old Society Time
Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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Beautiful Eyes Ourselves Perspective Philosophy
No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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Custom Exception Habit Live Motivational
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
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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Attack Dare Fortune Man Remember Secret Success World Yourself
It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Comparison Easy Hard Leaving Oneself
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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Himself Lying Man Pen Thinking Writing
You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
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Mindset Order Remember Wrong
An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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Believe Life Mortal Percentage
Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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Empty Fake Fools Place Pretend Vanity Wickedness
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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Fate Greatness Small Vanity Way Weakness Wisdom
Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Forget Friendship True
Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Empty Laughter Life
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Character Laughter People Selfish
Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Destiny One Liner Sport
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

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