The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIt is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
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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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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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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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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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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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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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