Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYTo endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained – who can say this is not greatness?
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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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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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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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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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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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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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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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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