We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYMoney has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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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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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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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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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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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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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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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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A person can’t help their birth.
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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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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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