It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIt is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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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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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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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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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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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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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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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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Frequent the company of your betters.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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