Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
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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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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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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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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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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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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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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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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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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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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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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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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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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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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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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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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