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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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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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Adversity Day Learning Lesson Level Life
Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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Generosity Greeting Life Mirror Return Smile Yourself
The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.
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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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Believe Life Mortal Percentage
Frequent the company of your betters.
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Appearance Better Company
I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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Active Believe Man Moral Myself
Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Big Fools Love Small
It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Comparison Easy Hard Leaving Oneself
Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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Natural Nature One Liner Revenge Wickedness
Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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Husband Marriage One Liner Wife
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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Action Born Establishment Habit People Success Work
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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Moral Prosperity Vice World
Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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Change Expectation Marriage Person
Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, “Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.”
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Fools Himself Life Song Wine Woman
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Children God Heart Lips Mom Name
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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Mindset Order Remember Wrong

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