Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYA cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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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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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
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Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do. The successful people don’t always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.
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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.
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You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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