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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.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Forget Friendship True
Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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Action Feeling
Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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Different Eyes Money Value
An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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Believe Life Mortal Percentage
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Character Laughter People Selfish
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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Admire Greatness Happiness Learning Life Right Spirit Worship
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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Agreement Easy Existence Light Offend Wickedness
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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Angry Creation Harm Intend Ourselves Wound
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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Fortune God Greatness Man Quality Success
It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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Adversity Day Learning Lesson Level Life
All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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Fair Justice One Liner Right
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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Conversation Generation Lips Philosophy Style Thinking Wisdom
Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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See Vanity
It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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Comfortable Greatness Imagination People Sick
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
A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Appearance Happiness Heart Joy

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