Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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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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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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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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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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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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Frequent the company of your betters.
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Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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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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