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A person can’t help their birth.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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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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Himself Lying Man Pen Thinking Writing
Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Destiny One Liner Sport
Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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Generosity Greeting Life Mirror Return Smile Yourself
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Character Laughter People Selfish
Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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Empty Fake Fools Place Pretend Vanity Wickedness
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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Attach Better Endurance Fortune Life Love Man Smart Yourself
Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
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Children Education Fate Honor Luck Training
Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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Natural Nature One Liner Revenge Wickedness
Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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Business Happiness Motivational
Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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Action Feeling
Humor is wit and love.
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Humor Intelligence Love One Liner Smart
Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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Jealous Regard Rival Strong Woman
Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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Easy Forgot Injury Kindness Man Mindset Worth
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Chance Kind Lose Word
When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
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Clear Fate Preparation Way Willing
If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Fools Man Wisdom Yourself
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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Face Man Reflection World
To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
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Best Couple Love See Sight Wonder Young
Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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Beautiful Eyes Ourselves Perspective Philosophy
All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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Fair Justice One Liner Right
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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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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Beautiful Demand Enough Herself Rose Sing Woman
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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Fortune God Greatness Man Quality Success
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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Attack Dare Fortune Man Remember Secret Success World Yourself
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Children God Heart Lips Mom Name
Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Argument Body Kindness Proud
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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Best Heaven Love Purity Repeat Spirit

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