It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYA 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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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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Humor is wit and love.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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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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To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don’t want a rose to sing.
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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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Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, “Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.”
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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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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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