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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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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Fools Man Wisdom Yourself
An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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Believe Life Mortal Percentage
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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Beyond Feeling Grave Hope Leaving Life Love Myself Past Reach Survive Thinking
Pray God, keep us simple.
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God Prayer Simplicity
If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Bury Death Heart Love Yourself
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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Angry Creation Harm Intend Ourselves Wound
Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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Desire Happiness Ourselves Satisfaction World
Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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Beautiful Eyes Ourselves Perspective Philosophy
Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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See Vanity
It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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Comfortable Greatness Imagination People Sick
There is a skeleton in every house.
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Bone Home
Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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Change Expectation Marriage Person
Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Empty Laughter Life
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Diamond Life Reality
Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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Husband Marriage One Liner Wife
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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Bright Enough Eyes Flame Forget Life Man Possession Reward

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