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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.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don’t want a rose to sing.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
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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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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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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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It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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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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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
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