It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIt is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do. The successful people don’t always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
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Humor is wit and love.
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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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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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