Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, “Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.”
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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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak.
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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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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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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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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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There is a skeleton in every house.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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