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.
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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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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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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Frequent the company of your betters.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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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.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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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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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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