To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYSuccessful 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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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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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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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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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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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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Frequent the company of your betters.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.
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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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