When 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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYMoney has only a different value in the eyes of each.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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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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There is a skeleton in every house.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
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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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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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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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It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute’s delay or advance.
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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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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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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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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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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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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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Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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