It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYA good laugh is sunshine in the house.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute’s delay or advance.
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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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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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We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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