Bravery never goes out of fashion.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYLucky 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.
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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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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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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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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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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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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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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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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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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Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.
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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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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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