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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.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute’s delay or advance.
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Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
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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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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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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
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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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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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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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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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