Vanity is often the unseen spur.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYLife is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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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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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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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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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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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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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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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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Frequent the company of your betters.
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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 cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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