All William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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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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I would rather make my name than inherit it.
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
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'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.
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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
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What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
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The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
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