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Some folk want their luck buttered.

Thomas Hardy

Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.
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Best Devotion Failure Greatness Kind Man Remember Selfish
It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.
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Failure Marriage Observation Path People Regular
Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
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Bed Death Grave Live Teaching
That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind, a dog’s fidelity!
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Cheating Dog Equality Feeling Heart Human Kind True
If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
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Better Hide Offense Truth
To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
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Feature Tree Voice Wood
There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Eat Friendship Music
People go on marrying because they can’t resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort.
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Comfortable Force Happiness Marriage Natural People Resistance
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Drama Episode Happiness Pain
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Reflection Work
O, you have torn my life all to pieces… made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
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Life Myself Pieces Prayer
I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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Born Fantasy
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
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Age Critical Decision Hands Mindset Moments Time
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
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Age Development Early Friendship Job Man Old Performance Reach Value
I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.
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Death Life Love Myself
If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
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Couple Love Marriage Relationship

Some folk want their luck buttered.

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