It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThen 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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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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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
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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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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Humor is wit and love.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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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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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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