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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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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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Easy Forgot Injury Kindness Man Mindset Worth
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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Goodness Intellectual Live Man Social
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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Best Heaven Love Purity Repeat Spirit
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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Admire Greatness Happiness Learning Life Right Spirit Worship
There is a skeleton in every house.
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Bone Home
If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Fools Man Wisdom Yourself
Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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Jealous Regard Rival Strong Woman
No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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Custom Exception Habit Live Motivational
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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Dinner Eat Goodness Health Man Mindset Reading
Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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Beautiful Eyes Ourselves Perspective Philosophy
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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Decision Eyes Greatness Hands Life Lips Moments Talk World
Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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Empty Fake Fools Place Pretend Vanity Wickedness
Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
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Enjoyment Food Gratitude Happiness Life Proper Respect Time Yourself
Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
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Angry Creation Harm Intend Ourselves Wound
Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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Natural Nature One Liner Revenge Wickedness
Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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