Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYRevenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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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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One of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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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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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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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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