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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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Pray God, keep us simple.
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God Prayer Simplicity
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Diamond Life Reality
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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Ambition Dare Difficult End Endurance Fortune Greatness Intrigue Tired
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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Moral Prosperity Vice World
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
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Character Laughter People Selfish
The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Goodness Nature People World
Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Destiny One Liner Sport
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
Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Forget Friendship True
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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Book Expression Fiction Happiness heavy History Laughter Life Live Myself Old Society Time
What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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Charm Money Peace
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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Goodness Intellectual Live Man Social
It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Comparison Easy Hard Leaving Oneself
Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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Business Happiness Motivational
Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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