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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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Goodness Home Laughter Sunshine
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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Destiny Fate Glimpse Machine Ourselves Past Time
No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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Custom Exception Habit Live Motivational
Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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Active Confidence Friendship Man Modesty Peace
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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Himself Lying Man Pen Thinking Writing
Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Big Fools Love Small
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Chance Kind Lose Word
If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Bury Death Heart Love Yourself
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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Goal Horizon Live Success Yourself
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Achievement Excellence Happiness Praise
The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Goodness Nature People World
It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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Company Friendship Heart
It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Comparison Easy Hard Leaving Oneself
Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Destiny One Liner Sport
To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained – who can say this is not greatness?
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Ambition Dare Difficult End Endurance Fortune Greatness Intrigue Tired
Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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Destiny Eternity Life Peace Soul Training
Frequent the company of your betters.
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Appearance Better Company
A person can’t help their birth.
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Born Fate Help One Liner Person
Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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Desire Happiness Ourselves Satisfaction World
Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Honesty Strong Yourself
Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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Empty Fake Fools Place Pretend Vanity Wickedness
I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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Active Believe Man Moral Myself
There is a skeleton in every house.
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Bone Home
Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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Dare Inspirational Oppression World Yourself
People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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Hate Love People Reason
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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Moral Prosperity Vice World
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Diamond Life Reality

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