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!
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYTo love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
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Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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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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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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