If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
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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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The best of women are hypocrites.
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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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