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

William Makepeace Thackeray

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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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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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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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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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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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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.
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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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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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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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The best of women are hypocrites.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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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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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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