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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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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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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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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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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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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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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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Humor is wit and love.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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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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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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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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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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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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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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