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 THACKERAYNo particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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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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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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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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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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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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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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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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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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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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