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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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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, “Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.”
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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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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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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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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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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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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Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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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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