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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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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Big Fools Love Small
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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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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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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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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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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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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Pray God, keep us simple.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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Husband Marriage One Liner Wife
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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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained – who can say this is not greatness?
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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 comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Comparison Easy Hard Leaving Oneself

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