Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYHint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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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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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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