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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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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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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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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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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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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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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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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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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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Under 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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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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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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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak.
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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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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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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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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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