A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYNext to excellence is the appreciation of it.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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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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Frequent the company of your betters.
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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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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don’t want a rose to sing.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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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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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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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
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