If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIt is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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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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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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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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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.
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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.”
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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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