Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThe 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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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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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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Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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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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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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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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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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