Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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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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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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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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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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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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A person can’t help their birth.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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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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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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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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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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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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