Business first; pleasure afterwards.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYYou can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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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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To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don’t want a rose to sing.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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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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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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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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