More from William Makepeace Thackeray

  1. Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim. Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the world always yields: or, i…
  2. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.
  3. 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 t…
  4. The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts: but who can tell the mischief which the …
  5. This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is- A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never could outd…
  6. She looks so haughty that I should have thought her a princess at the very least, with a pedigree reaching as far back as the Deluge. But t…
  7. Good humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.
  8. Stupid people, people who do not know how to laugh, are always pompous and self-conceited.

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