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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
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Angry Believe Consistent Greatness Hate Lying Order
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
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
Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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Action Feeling
If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Bury Death Heart Love Yourself
You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
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Mindset Order Remember Wrong
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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Clear Fate Preparation Way Willing
Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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Husband Marriage One Liner Wife
If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Fools Man Wisdom Yourself
I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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Active Believe Man Moral Myself
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Chance Kind Lose Word
It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
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Best Choice Doubt Fools Love Wisdom
We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
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Creature Eat Food Kindness World
Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Big Fools Love Small
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Diamond Life Reality
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

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