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One of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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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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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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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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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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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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Humor is wit and love.
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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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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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One of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Fortune God Greatness Man Quality Success
We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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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

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