I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThe world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Out 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?
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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One of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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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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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
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