It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYLife without laughing is a dreary blank.
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It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute’s delay or advance.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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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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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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A person can’t help their birth.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
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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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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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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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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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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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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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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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The best of women are hypocrites.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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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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