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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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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Children God Heart Lips Mom Name
There is a skeleton in every house.
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Bone Home
A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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Goodness Home Laughter Sunshine
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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Fools Himself Life Song Wine Woman
Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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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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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Destiny One Liner Sport
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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Goodness Intellectual Live Man Social
No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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Custom Exception Habit Live Motivational
Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
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Beyond Feeling Grave Hope Leaving Life Love Myself Past Reach Survive Thinking
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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Children Education Fate Honor Luck Training
Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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Natural Nature One Liner Revenge Wickedness
Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Argument Body Kindness Proud
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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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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Fair Justice One Liner Right
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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