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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, “Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.”
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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.
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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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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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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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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak.
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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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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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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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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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When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don’t know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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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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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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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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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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