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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.

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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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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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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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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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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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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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A person can’t help their birth.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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