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!
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYAll is vanity, nothing is fair.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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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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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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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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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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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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