Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYA good laugh is sunshine in the house.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.
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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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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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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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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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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
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