In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThe world is good natured to people who are good natured.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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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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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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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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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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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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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained – who can say this is not greatness?
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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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