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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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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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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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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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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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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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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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Humor is wit and love.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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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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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
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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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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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