Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIf there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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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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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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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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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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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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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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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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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
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