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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 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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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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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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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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Frequent the company of your betters.
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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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Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
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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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Humor is wit and love.
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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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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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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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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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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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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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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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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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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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