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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYA good laugh is sunshine in the house.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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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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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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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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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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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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There is a skeleton in every house.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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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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One of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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