It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIs beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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Humor is wit and love.
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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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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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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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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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A person can’t help their birth.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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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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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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