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All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.
If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.
When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen.
Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?
A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.
It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.
Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival.
When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
That which we call a snob by any other name would still be snobbish.
Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
Taste is something quite different from fashion, superior to fashion.
Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.
It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.
Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean.
Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector.
There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.
An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
Pray, dear madam, another glass; it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm.
I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning.
Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.
In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.
If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!
Not only is the world informed of everything about you, but of a great deal more.
Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.