The best of women are hypocrites.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYI 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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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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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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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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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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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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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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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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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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