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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.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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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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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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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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Believe Life Mortal Percentage
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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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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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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I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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