You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThe pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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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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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
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Let 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.
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Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
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