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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained – who can say this is not greatness?

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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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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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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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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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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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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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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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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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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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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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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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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