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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
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Angry Believe Consistent Greatness Hate Lying Order
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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Agreement Easy Existence Light Offend Wickedness
Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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Choice Economics Friendship Goodness Wisdom
Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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Generosity Greeting Life Mirror Return Smile Yourself
Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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Business Happiness Motivational
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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Attach Better Endurance Fortune Life Love Man Smart Yourself
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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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
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Diamond Life Reality
One of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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Fate Greatness Small Vanity Way Weakness Wisdom
The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.
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Conversation Generation Lips Philosophy Style Thinking Wisdom
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
What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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Charm Money Peace
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
Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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Brave Fashion One Liner

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