Vanity is often the unseen spur.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYYou can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, “Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.”
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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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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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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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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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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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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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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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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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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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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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