Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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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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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
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You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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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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