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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.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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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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Desire Happiness Ourselves Satisfaction World
Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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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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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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Face Man Reflection World
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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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Destiny One Liner Sport
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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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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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Fools Man Wisdom Yourself
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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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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Herself Myself Mystery Puzzle Woman
Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
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