Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYFrequent the company of your betters.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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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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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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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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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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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.”
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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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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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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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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Frequent the company of your betters.
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