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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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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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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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Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
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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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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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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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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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