A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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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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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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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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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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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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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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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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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One of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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