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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYBravery never goes out of fashion.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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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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To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don’t want a rose to sing.
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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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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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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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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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Pray God, keep us simple.
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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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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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