Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYTo be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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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.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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