Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYBenevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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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 love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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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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A person can’t help their birth.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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