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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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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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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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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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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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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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One of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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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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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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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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Frequent the company of your betters.
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Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do. The successful people don’t always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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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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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.
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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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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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The best of women are hypocrites.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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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 cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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