Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do. The successful people don’t always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYA 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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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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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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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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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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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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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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A person can’t help their birth.
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