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William Makepeace Thackeray quotes about friends

English Novelist, Writer July 18, 1811 – December 24, 1863

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Have you ever had a difference with a dear friend? How his letters, written in the period of love and confidence, sicken and rebuke you! What a dreary mourning it is to dwell upon those vehement protests of dead affection! What lying epitaphs they make over the corpse of love! What dark, cruel comments upon Life and Vanities! Most of us have got or written drawers full of them. They are closet-skeletons which we keep and shun William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray quote: "In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in..."
In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends... William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray quote: "In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone."
In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone. William Makepeace Thackeray
By humbly and frankly acknowledging yourself to be in the wrong, there is no knowing, my son, what good you may do. I knew once a gentleman and very worthy practitioner in Vanity Fair, who used to do little wrongs to his neighbours on purpose, and in order to apologise for them in an open and manly way afterwards—and what ensued? My friend Crocky Doyle was liked everywhere, and deemed to be rather impetuous—but the honestest fellow. William Makepeace Thackeray
Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue. William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray quote: "it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they..."
it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody William Makepeace Thackeray

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