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?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYA person can’t help their birth.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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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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The best of women are hypocrites.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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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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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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