There is a skeleton in every house.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYFollow your honest convictions and be strong.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute’s delay or advance.
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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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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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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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Pray God, keep us simple.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
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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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Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, “Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.”
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