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.
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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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
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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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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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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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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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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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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 good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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