There is a skeleton in every house.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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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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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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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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The best of women are hypocrites.
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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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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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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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