You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYNext to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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Humor is wit and love.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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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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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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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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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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