Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, “Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.”
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYHumor is wit and love.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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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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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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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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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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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 world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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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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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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