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.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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Fair Justice One Liner Right
Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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Brave Fashion One Liner
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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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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When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don’t know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.
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Herself Myself Mystery Puzzle Woman
If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Fools Man Wisdom Yourself
In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Alone Friendship Herself Kind Parents
If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Bury Death Heart Love Yourself
Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Diamond Life Reality
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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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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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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Company Friendship Heart
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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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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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
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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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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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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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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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Face Man Reflection World
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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