A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYKindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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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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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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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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Humor is wit and love.
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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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