There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYRevenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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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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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak.
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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
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Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
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