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1. To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
2. It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.
3. Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
4. 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.
5. Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
6. There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
7. Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
8. When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
9. Whatever you are, be a good one.
10. It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
11. Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
12. Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
13. If a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
14. A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
15. People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
16. ’Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
17. The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
18. The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.
19. Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
20. What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.