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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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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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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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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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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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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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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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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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