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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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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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Generosity Greeting Life Mirror Return Smile Yourself
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Character Laughter People Selfish
Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
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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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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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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One of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Comparison Easy Hard Leaving Oneself
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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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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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 pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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