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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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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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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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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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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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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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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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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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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
A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Appearance Happiness Heart Joy
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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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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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
When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don’t know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.
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Herself Myself Mystery Puzzle Woman
Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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