Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYTo 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.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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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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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Humor is wit and love.
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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