A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYLucky 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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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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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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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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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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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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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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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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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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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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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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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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