Business first; pleasure afterwards.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYAh me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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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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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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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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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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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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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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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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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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