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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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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
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To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don’t want a rose to sing.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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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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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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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do. The successful people don’t always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.
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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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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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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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