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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.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Humor is wit and love.
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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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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
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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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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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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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I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don’t want a rose to sing.
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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
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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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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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