Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYBusiness first; pleasure afterwards.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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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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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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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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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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