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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
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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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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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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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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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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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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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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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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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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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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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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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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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