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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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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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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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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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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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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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There is a skeleton in every house.
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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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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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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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