Bad husbands will make bad wives.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIf there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
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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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Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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