Business first; pleasure afterwards.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYFollow your honest convictions and be strong.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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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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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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do. The successful people don’t always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.
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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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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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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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There is a skeleton in every house.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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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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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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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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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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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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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.
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