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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained – who can say this is not greatness?
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Humor is wit and love.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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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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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
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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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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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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, “Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.”
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