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.”
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYWhich of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don’t know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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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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To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
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We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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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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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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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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Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
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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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Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
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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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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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