Frequent the company of your betters.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYEvery 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!
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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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We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
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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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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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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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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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