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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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When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don’t know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.
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Herself Myself Mystery Puzzle Woman
A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Appearance Happiness Heart Joy
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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The best of women are hypocrites.
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Best Hypocrisy Woman
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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Attack Dare Fortune Man Remember Secret Success World Yourself
Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
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Best Couple Love See Sight Wonder Young
Pray God, keep us simple.
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God Prayer Simplicity
It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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Adversity Day Learning Lesson Level Life
There is a skeleton in every house.
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Bone Home
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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Destiny Fate Glimpse Machine Ourselves Past Time
A person can’t help their birth.
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Born Fate Help One Liner Person
A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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Goodness Home Laughter Sunshine
When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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Heaven Look Love Myself Paradise Relationship See Thinking Yourself
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
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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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Empty Laughter Life
When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
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Clear Fate Preparation Way Willing
It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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Company Friendship Heart
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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Best Lose Love Relationship Win
Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
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Attach Better Endurance Fortune Life Love Man Smart Yourself
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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Face Man Reflection World
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Character Laughter People Selfish
No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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Custom Exception Habit Live Motivational
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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Book Expression Fiction Happiness heavy History Laughter Life Live Myself Old Society Time
A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
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Change Heart Life Lover Man Oneself Preparation Quick Sad Woman
A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
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