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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!

William Makepeace Thackeray

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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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Angry Creation Harm Intend Ourselves Wound
Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Forget Friendship True
A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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Goodness Home Laughter Sunshine
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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Destiny Fate Glimpse Machine Ourselves Past Time
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Achievement Excellence Happiness Praise
The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.
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Conversation Generation Lips Philosophy Style Thinking Wisdom
It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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Company Friendship Heart
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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Mindset Order Remember Wrong
All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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Fair Justice One Liner Right
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Diamond Life Reality
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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Dinner Eat Goodness Health Man Mindset Reading
Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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Business Happiness Motivational
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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Attach Better Endurance Fortune Life Love Man Smart Yourself
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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Himself Lying Man Pen Thinking Writing
Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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Jealous Regard Rival Strong Woman
Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
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Beyond Feeling Grave Hope Leaving Life Love Myself Past Reach Survive Thinking
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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Agreement Easy Existence Light Offend Wickedness
Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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Desire Happiness Ourselves Satisfaction World
We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
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Best Heaven Love Purity Repeat Spirit
To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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Appearance Fake Right Thinking
To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don’t want a rose to sing.
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Beautiful Demand Enough Herself Rose Sing Woman
Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
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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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Best Couple Love See Sight Wonder Young
Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do. The successful people don’t always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.
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Action Born Establishment Habit People Success Work
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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Herself Myself Mystery Puzzle Woman
Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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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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