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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYLove makes fools of us all, big and little.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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Humor is wit and love.
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We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don’t know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.
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Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
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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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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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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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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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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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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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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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