Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIs beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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Humor is wit and love.
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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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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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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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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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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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Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
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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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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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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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