Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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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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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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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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Sir, 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.
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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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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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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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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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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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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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