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To 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.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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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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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
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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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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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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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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
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When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Forget Friendship True
I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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Active Believe Man Moral Myself
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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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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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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Husband Marriage One Liner Wife
Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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Face Man Reflection World
People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Destiny One Liner Sport
Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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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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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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Company Friendship Heart
Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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