People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYDare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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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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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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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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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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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don’t want a rose to sing.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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