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.”
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIt is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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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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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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Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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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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Frequent the company of your betters.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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