The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYPeople hate as they love, unreasonably.
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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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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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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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Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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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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