It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYWhen 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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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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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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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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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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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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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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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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Pray God, keep us simple.
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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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There is a skeleton in every house.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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