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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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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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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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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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It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute’s delay or advance.
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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
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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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The best of women are hypocrites.
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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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