Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYBenevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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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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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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