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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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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Character Laughter People Selfish
Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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Death Exception Happiness Sorry
All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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Fair Justice One Liner Right
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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Ambition Dare Difficult End Endurance Fortune Greatness Intrigue Tired
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
When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
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Clear Fate Preparation Way Willing
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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Dinner Eat Goodness Health Man Mindset Reading
A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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Enemy Fools Himself See
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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Conversation Generation Lips Philosophy Style Thinking Wisdom
Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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Jealous Regard Rival Strong Woman
Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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Brave Fashion One Liner
It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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Comfortable Greatness Imagination People Sick
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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The best of women are hypocrites.
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Best Hypocrisy Woman
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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Fate Greatness Small Vanity Way Weakness Wisdom
We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
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Best Heaven Love Purity Repeat Spirit

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