There is a skeleton in every house.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYHumor is wit and love.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
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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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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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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.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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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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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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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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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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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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