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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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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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Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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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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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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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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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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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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Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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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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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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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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Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do. The successful people don’t always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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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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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
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