Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
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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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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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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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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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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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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Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.
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