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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
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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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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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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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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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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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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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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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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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