Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYAn immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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A person can’t help their birth.
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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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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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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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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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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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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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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute’s delay or advance.
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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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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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