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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYBusiness first; pleasure afterwards.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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 is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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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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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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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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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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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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Humor is wit and love.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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