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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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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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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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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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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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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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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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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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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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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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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 fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.
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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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