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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?

William Makepeace Thackeray

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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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Fools Himself Life Song Wine Woman
Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Honesty Strong Yourself
Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
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Admire Greatness Happiness Learning Life Right Spirit Worship
Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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See Vanity
Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
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Angry Creation Harm Intend Ourselves Wound
Humor is wit and love.
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Humor Intelligence Love One Liner Smart
Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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Change Expectation Marriage Person
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
It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Comparison Easy Hard Leaving Oneself
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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Decision Eyes Greatness Hands Life Lips Moments Talk World
Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Argument Body Kindness Proud
Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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Action Feeling
A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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Enemy Fools Himself See
When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don’t know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.
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Herself Myself Mystery Puzzle Woman
Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
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Attach Better Endurance Fortune Life Love Man Smart Yourself
Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Destiny One Liner Sport

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