We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIt’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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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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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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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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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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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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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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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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Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
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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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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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