Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYAh me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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One of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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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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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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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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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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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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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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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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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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