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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
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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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The best of women are hypocrites.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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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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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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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
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Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
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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!
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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