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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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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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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
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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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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained – who can say this is not greatness?
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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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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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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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.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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