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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.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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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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Admire Greatness Happiness Learning Life Right Spirit Worship
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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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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Humor is wit and love.
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Humor Intelligence Love One Liner Smart
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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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 from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Destiny One Liner Sport
Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
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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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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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Company Friendship Heart
Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, “Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.”
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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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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