There is a skeleton in every house.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIs beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do. The successful people don’t always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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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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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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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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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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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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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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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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