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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.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
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Clear Fate Preparation Way Willing
Frequent the company of your betters.
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Appearance Better Company
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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Fools Himself Life Song Wine Woman
Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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Empty Fake Fools Place Pretend Vanity Wickedness
We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Best Heaven Love Purity Repeat Spirit
Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Argument Body Kindness Proud
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Character Laughter People Selfish
We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
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Creature Eat Food Kindness World
Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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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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Dare Inspirational Oppression World Yourself
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak.
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Decision Eyes Greatness Hands Life Lips Moments Talk World
In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Alone Friendship Herself Kind Parents
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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Moral Prosperity Vice World

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