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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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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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Conversation Generation Lips Philosophy Style Thinking Wisdom
A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
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Change Heart Life Lover Man Oneself Preparation Quick Sad Woman
If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Bury Death Heart Love Yourself
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
Pray God, keep us simple.
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God Prayer Simplicity
It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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Adversity Day Learning Lesson Level Life
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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Enjoyment Food Gratitude Happiness Life Proper Respect Time Yourself
Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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Beautiful Eyes Ourselves Perspective Philosophy
In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Alone Friendship Herself Kind Parents
I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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Active Believe Man Moral Myself
To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained – who can say this is not greatness?
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Ambition Dare Difficult End Endurance Fortune Greatness Intrigue Tired
Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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Brave Fashion One Liner
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
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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Dinner Eat Goodness Health Man Mindset Reading
Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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Action Feeling
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Achievement Excellence Happiness Praise

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