Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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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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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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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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Pray God, keep us simple.
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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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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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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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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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