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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYNever lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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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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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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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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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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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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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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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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Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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