Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIt is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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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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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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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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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.
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