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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYWhen 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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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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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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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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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
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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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Humor is wit and love.
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It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
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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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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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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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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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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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