In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYLife without laughing is a dreary blank.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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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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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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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.”
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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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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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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