People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThere are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
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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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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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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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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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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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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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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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Frequent the company of your betters.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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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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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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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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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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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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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 a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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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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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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