William Makepeace Thackeray on business
William Makepeace Thackeray90 quotes“Business first; pleasure afterwards.”
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray People hate as they love, unreasonably.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do. The successful people don’t always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Bad husbands will make bad wives.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
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