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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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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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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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Humor is wit and love.
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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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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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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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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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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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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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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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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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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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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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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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Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, “Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.”
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
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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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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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