What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYWhat a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYSir, 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 THACKERAYAlas! we are the sport of destiny.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYUnder the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYLove 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?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThe 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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYBad husbands will make bad wives.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYTo 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?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYRevenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIs beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThe best of women are hypocrites.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYNext to excellence is the appreciation of it.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYPeople who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYExcept for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYBenevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYWomen are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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