Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYDo not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, “Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.”
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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Humor is wit and love.
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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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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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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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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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