There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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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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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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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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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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A 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.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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Humor is wit and love.
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