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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYUnder the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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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 moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
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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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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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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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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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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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