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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
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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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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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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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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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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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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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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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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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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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There is a skeleton in every house.
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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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Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
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