Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYSir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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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.”
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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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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak.
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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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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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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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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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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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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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