Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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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Pray God, keep us simple.
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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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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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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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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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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
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