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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.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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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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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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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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One of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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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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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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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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