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.

Quote by William Makepeace Thackeray

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

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

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

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

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

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

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

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

'Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have a life enjoyment...

'Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have a life enjoyment...

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

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

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

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is...

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is...

Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand

Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and...

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and...

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it

I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year

I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always...

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always...

Men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at...

Men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at...