Vanity is often the unseen spur.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIf there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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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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Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
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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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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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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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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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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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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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There is a skeleton in every house.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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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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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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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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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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