When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYMother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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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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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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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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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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Humor is wit and love.
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