When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThen 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.”
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
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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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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don’t want a rose to sing.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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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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