You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYA good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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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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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
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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 a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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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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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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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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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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