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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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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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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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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
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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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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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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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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
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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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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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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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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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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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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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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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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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