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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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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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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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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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We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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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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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
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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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Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
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