Frequent the company of your betters.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYSir, 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.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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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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