It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYTo see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
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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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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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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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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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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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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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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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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained – who can say this is not greatness?
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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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