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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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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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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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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
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Bright Enough Eyes Flame Forget Life Man Possession Reward
There is a skeleton in every house.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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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.
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Destiny Fate Glimpse Machine Ourselves Past Time
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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Himself Lying Man Pen Thinking Writing
Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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