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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYTo be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained – who can say this is not greatness?
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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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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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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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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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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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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