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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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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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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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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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Humor is wit and love.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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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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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.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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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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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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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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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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