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 THACKERAYBravery never goes out of fashion.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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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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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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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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There is a skeleton in every house.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
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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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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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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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