There is a skeleton in every house.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYKindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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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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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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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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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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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?
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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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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