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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYWhen 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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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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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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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
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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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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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