The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIt’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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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.
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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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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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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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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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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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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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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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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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Humor is wit and love.
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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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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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