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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!

William Makepeace Thackeray

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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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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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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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There is a skeleton in every house.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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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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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Destiny One Liner Sport
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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To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don’t want a rose to sing.
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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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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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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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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