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

William Makepeace Thackeray

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To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
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Best Couple Love See Sight Wonder Young
Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Big Fools Love Small
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute’s delay or advance.
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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 fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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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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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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Best Hypocrisy 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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Humor is wit and love.
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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Active Confidence Friendship Man Modesty Peace
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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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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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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