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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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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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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak.
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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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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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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
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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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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Company Friendship Heart
Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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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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Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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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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