We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYWhat a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
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Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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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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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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