Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained – who can say this is not greatness?
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It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute’s delay or advance.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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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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Humor is wit and love.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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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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