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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.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Humor is wit and love.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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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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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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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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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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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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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute’s delay or advance.
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