A person can’t help their birth.
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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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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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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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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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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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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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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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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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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