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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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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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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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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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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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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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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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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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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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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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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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To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don’t want a rose to sing.
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