In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYA pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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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Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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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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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don’t know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.
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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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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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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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