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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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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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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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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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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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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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Humor is wit and love.
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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.
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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained – who can say this is not greatness?
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
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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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