Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYA person can’t help their birth.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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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Pray God, keep us simple.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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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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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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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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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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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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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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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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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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