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"25 William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 18 July 1811. Died: 24 December 1863 | Novelist | Author | Illustrator |

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Love Win Lose Next best
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

Never Lose Chance Kind word
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Follow your honest convictions, and stay strong.
Follow Honest Convictions Stay strong
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

Life Frown Smile Greeting
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.

Revenge Wicked Natural
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Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.

Good humor Articles Wear Society
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

Mother God Hearts Children
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.

People Hate Love Unreasonably
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.

Thoughts Man Know Write
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In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends...

Word Adversity Comforters Friends
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to be skillful in domestic duties was surely one of the most charming of woman's qualities.

Skilful Duties Woman's Qualities
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You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob

You Judge Snobs Shows
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Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and charity, a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.

Cheerfulness Spirit Heart Charity
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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

World Gives back Man Reflection
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.

Money Different Value Eyes
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The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.

Powers Good Author Make
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It is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody

Ordinary People Friends Care
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I would rather make my name then inherit it.

I Make Name Inherit
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A good laugh is sunshine in a house
Good Laugh Sunshine House
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Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?

Little Life Nothing History
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It is better to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all

Love Doubt Foolishly Better
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Whatever you are, be a good one.

Whatever You Good
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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.

Succeed Live Goal You
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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Man Life Dare Succeed
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It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

Hope Real Reality Deceit
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William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes & Sayings