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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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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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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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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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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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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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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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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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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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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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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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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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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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