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The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak.

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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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
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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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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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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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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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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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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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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
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One of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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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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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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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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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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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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