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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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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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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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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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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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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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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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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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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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