Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYNext 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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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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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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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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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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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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.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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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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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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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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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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