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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.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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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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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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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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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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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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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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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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