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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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To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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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.
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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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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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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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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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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
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