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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYDare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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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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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, “Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.”
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We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
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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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To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don’t want a rose to sing.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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