An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYLife without laughing is a dreary blank.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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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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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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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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