It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThe best of women are hypocrites.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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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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Frequent the company of your betters.
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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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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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Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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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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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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