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?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYLet 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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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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Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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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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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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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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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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Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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