Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYLucky 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.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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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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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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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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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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The best of women are hypocrites.
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