Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYNext to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
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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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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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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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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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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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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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