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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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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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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don’t know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.
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Herself Myself Mystery Puzzle Woman
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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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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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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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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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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Action Feeling
Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
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Humor is wit and love.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Appearance Happiness Heart Joy
Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
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Beyond Feeling Grave Hope Leaving Life Love Myself Past Reach Survive Thinking
Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, “Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.”
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Fools Himself Life Song Wine Woman
A person can’t help their birth.
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Born Fate Help One Liner Person
Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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Goodness Home Laughter Sunshine
Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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Husband Marriage One Liner Wife
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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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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Creature Eat Food Kindness World
Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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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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