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A person can’t help their birth.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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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
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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Moral Prosperity Vice World
Frequent the company of your betters.
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Appearance Better Company
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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Active Confidence Friendship Man Modesty Peace
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
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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Fools Himself Life Song Wine Woman
No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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Custom Exception Habit Live Motivational
A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Appearance Happiness Heart Joy
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
Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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Desire Happiness Ourselves Satisfaction World
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
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
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
To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained – who can say this is not greatness?
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Ambition Dare Difficult End Endurance Fortune Greatness Intrigue Tired
Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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Fate Greatness Small Vanity Way Weakness Wisdom
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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Best Lose Love Relationship Win
Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Honesty Strong Yourself
Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Empty Laughter Life
Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
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Goal Horizon Live Success Yourself
Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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Brave Fashion One Liner
It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute’s delay or advance.
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Destiny Fate Glimpse Machine Ourselves Past Time
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Children God Heart Lips Mom Name
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
Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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Change Expectation Marriage Person
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Character Laughter People Selfish
Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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Jealous Regard Rival Strong Woman
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Diamond Life Reality

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