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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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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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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Big Fools Love Small
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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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute’s delay or advance.
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Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Humor is wit and love.
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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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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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Dare Inspirational Oppression World Yourself
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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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don’t want a rose to sing.
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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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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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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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