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

William Makepeace Thackeray

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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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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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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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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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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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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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