Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYHint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.
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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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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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Frequent the company of your betters.
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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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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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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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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
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Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.
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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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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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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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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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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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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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