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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do. The successful people don’t always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.
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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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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
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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.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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