Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIt 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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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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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 from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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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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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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You 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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A person can’t help their birth.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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