There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYBad husbands will make bad wives.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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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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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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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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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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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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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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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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