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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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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Comparison Easy Hard Leaving Oneself
Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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Beautiful Eyes Ourselves Perspective Philosophy
Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
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Beyond Feeling Grave Hope Leaving Life Love Myself Past Reach Survive Thinking
If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Bury Death Heart Love Yourself
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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Bright Enough Eyes Flame Forget Life Man Possession Reward
Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Argument Body Kindness Proud
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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Enjoyment Food Gratitude Happiness Life Proper Respect Time Yourself
Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do. The successful people don’t always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.
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Action Born Establishment Habit People Success Work
One of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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Fortune God Greatness Man Quality Success
Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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Change Expectation Marriage Person
Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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Action Feeling
People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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Hate Love People Reason
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
Frequent the company of your betters.
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Appearance Better Company
Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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Husband Marriage One Liner Wife
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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Creature Eat Food Kindness World
Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Forget Friendship True
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Diamond Life Reality
To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained – who can say this is not greatness?
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Ambition Dare Difficult End Endurance Fortune Greatness Intrigue Tired
The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Goodness Nature People World
Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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Different Eyes Money Value
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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Goodness Intellectual Live Man Social
You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
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Mindset Order Remember Wrong
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
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
Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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Jealous Regard Rival Strong Woman
Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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