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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYWhen you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
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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 a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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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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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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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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Frequent the company of your betters.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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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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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
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Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
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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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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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