One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThose who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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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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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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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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Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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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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