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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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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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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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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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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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Frequent the company of your betters.
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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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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
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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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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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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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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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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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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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