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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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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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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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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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Enemy Fools Himself See
Frequent the company of your betters.
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Appearance Better Company
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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Goodness Intellectual Live Man Social
People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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Hate Love People Reason
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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Angry Creation Harm Intend Ourselves Wound
A person can’t help their birth.
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Born Fate Help One Liner Person
Pray God, keep us simple.
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God Prayer Simplicity
If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Bury Death Heart Love Yourself
To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained – who can say this is not greatness?
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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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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Believe Life Mortal Percentage
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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