It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don’t want a rose to sing.
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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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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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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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