It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYA good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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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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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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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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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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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
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