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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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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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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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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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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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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.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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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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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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Angry Creation Harm Intend Ourselves Wound

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