Business first; pleasure afterwards.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYWomen are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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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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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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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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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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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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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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