Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYLife is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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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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Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don’t know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.
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It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute’s delay or advance.
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Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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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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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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