Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYA cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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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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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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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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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
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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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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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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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