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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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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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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.
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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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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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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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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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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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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Humor is wit and love.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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