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Great Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life,…
- Our great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they can not separate from our consciousness, shall follow it…
- 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,…
- Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
- If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we…
- At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between…
- One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we…
- There's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief that is very curious to watch . . .…
- Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in…
- Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks
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