Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYI believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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One of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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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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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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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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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Humor is wit and love.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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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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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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