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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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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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Pray God, keep us simple.
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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained – who can say this is not greatness?
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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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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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, “Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.”
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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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One of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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