People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYSir, 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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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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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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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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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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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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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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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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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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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
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