An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYTo love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
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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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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
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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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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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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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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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