It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYChoose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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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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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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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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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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Humor is wit and love.
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