Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, “Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.”
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYNext to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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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 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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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute’s delay or advance.
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When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don’t know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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Humor is wit and love.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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