William Makepeace Thackeray

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

-William Makepeace Thackeray

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

-William Makepeace Thackeray

best
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

-William Makepeace Thackeray

best
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 Thackeray

best
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

-William Makepeace Thackeray

god
A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

-William Makepeace Thackeray

good
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!

-William Makepeace Thackeray

history
It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

-William Makepeace Thackeray

hope
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

-William Makepeace Thackeray

humor
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.

-William Makepeace Thackeray

money
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

-William Makepeace Thackeray

society
It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

-William Makepeace Thackeray

society
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

-William Makepeace Thackeray

thanksgiving
Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

-William Makepeace Thackeray

valentinesday

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