An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYBad husbands will make bad wives.
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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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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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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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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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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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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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There is a skeleton in every house.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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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 is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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