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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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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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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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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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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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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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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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Pray God, keep us simple.
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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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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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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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Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
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