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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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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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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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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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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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Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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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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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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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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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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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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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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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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