It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.William Makepeace Thackeray
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 whithersoever that shall go, and are of their nature divine and immortal.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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 very virtuous do.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Oh, those women They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts . . .
William Makepeace Thackeray
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