Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThe best of women are hypocrites.
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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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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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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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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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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute’s delay or advance.
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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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