Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYOut 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?
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, “Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.”
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute’s delay or advance.
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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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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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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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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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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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