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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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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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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!
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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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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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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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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Humor is wit and love.
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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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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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Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
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