People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThe world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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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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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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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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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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Humor is wit and love.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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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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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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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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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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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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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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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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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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