If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThere is a skeleton in every house.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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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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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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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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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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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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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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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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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
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I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
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