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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.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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Company Friendship Heart
It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Bury Death Heart Love Yourself
Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Diamond Life Reality
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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Best Choice Doubt Fools Love Wisdom
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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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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Business Happiness Motivational
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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Bright Enough Eyes Flame Forget Life Man Possession Reward
A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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Enemy Fools Himself See
The best of women are hypocrites.
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Best Hypocrisy Woman
Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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Generosity Greeting Life Mirror Return Smile Yourself
It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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Appearance Fake Right Thinking
Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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Empty Fake Fools Place Pretend Vanity Wickedness

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