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

William Makepeace Thackeray

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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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Humor is wit and love.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.
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Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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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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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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Pray God, keep us simple.
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It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute’s delay or advance.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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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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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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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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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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