One of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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One of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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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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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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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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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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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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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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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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