There is a skeleton in every house.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThere is a skeleton in every house.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYEvery 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 THACKERAYOne 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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIs beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYLet 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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIt is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYTo love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIf there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYVanity is often the unseen spur.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIf thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThere are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYOh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThe world is good natured to people who are good natured.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYLucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIt is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYAlas! we are the sport of destiny.
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