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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYWhen Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
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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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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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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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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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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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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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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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