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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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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
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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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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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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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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
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Humor is wit and love.
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