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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYOut 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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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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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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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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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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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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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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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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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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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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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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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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There is a skeleton in every house.
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