Business first; pleasure afterwards.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYMother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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The 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.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
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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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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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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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