Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
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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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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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.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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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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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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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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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained – who can say this is not greatness?
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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