Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYBravery never goes out of fashion.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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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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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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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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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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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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Humor is wit and love.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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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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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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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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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don’t know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.
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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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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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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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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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