A person can’t help their birth.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYBravery never goes out of fashion.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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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Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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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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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!
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
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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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Pray God, keep us simple.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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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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The best of women are hypocrites.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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