It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYPeople hate as they love, unreasonably.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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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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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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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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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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To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
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Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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