Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIt is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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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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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don’t want a rose to sing.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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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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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
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