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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don’t want a rose to sing.
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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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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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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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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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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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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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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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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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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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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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