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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Fools Man Wisdom Yourself
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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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
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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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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.
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Best Couple Love See Sight Wonder Young
Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Empty Laughter Life
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Diamond Life Reality
Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Forget Friendship True
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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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See Vanity
Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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Beautiful Eyes Ourselves Perspective Philosophy
A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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