Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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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Pray God, keep us simple.
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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
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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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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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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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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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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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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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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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