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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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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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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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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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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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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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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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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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Humor is wit and love.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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One of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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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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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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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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