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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
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Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Forget Friendship True
Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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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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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Empty Laughter Life
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
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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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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See Vanity
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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Himself Lying Man Pen Thinking Writing
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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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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Generosity Greeting Life Mirror Return Smile Yourself
Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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