Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYUnder 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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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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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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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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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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