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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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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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Hate Love People Reason
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Chance Kind Lose Word
Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Honesty Strong Yourself
Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
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Beyond Feeling Grave Hope Leaving Life Love Myself Past Reach Survive Thinking
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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Destiny Fate Glimpse Machine Ourselves Past Time
Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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Generosity Greeting Life Mirror Return Smile Yourself
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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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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Best Choice Doubt Fools Love Wisdom
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
Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.
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Agreement Easy Existence Light Offend Wickedness
Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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Destiny Eternity Life Peace Soul Training
Humor is wit and love.
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Humor Intelligence Love One Liner Smart
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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Children Education Fate Honor Luck Training
It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Comparison Easy Hard Leaving Oneself
Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Argument Body Kindness Proud
The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak.
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