Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYLife is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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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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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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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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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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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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A person can’t help their birth.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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