It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYKindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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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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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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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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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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