It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYWhen 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.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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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.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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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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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
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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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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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