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If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

If a man’s character is to be abused, say what you will, there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.
– William Makepeace Thackeray

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  3. A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one. – William Makepeace Thackeray
  4. Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural. – William Makepeace Thackeray
  5. His Scotch bear-leader, Mr Boswell, was a ???? of the first quality. – William Makepeace Thackeray
  6. It is those who injure women who get the most kindness from them. – William Makepeace Thackeray
  7. A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES. – William Makepeace Thackeray
  8. Money has only a different value in the eyes of each. – William Makepeace Thackeray
  9. Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society. – William Makepeace Thackeray
  10. Mark to yourself the gradual way in which you have been prepared for, and are now led by an irresistible necessity to enter upon your great labour. – William Makepeace Thackeray
  11. Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. – William Makepeace Thackeray
  12. In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone. – William Makepeace Thackeray
  13. People hate as they love, unreasonably. – William Makepeace Thackeray
  14. The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name. – William Makepeace Thackeray
  15. Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world? – William Makepeace Thackeray
  16. I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time. – Dallin H Oaks
  17. A business owner who is not willing to invest in their business is a business owner who shouldn’t be in business. – Victoria Barnes
  18. They say -œas brave as lion-, they say -œas clever as fox-, they say -œ as friendly as dog- but nobody says -œas something good as man-. – Amit Kalantri
  19. As a business owner don’t think your limitations, think business; it’s all about business. – Vernita Naylor
  20. You know when I’m down to my socks it’s time for businessThat’s why they’re called business socksIt’s business, it’s business time – Flight of the Conchords
  21. What is my business in this? Oh yea, it is my business. It is not just my business, it is my calling. – Sunday Adelaja
  22. The Dark Knight 2008, favourite character Joker always in the right face and showing all humans in one character. A character died from characters! – Deyth Banger
  23. You say that I’m nobody, and you agree that nobody’s perfect.Based on logic, I’m a perfect person according to your opinion. – Toba Beta
  24. Your judgments about another person say more about your own character than the character of the person you’re pointing a finger at. – Alaric Hutchinson
  25. Even if people say that I don’t have a character still I am a well known character. – Amit Abraham
  26. When bitter, say little; when angry, say nothing; when happy, say much; when joyful, say all. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  27. Knowing what to say is sense, when to say it is intelligence, how to say it is wisdom, why and how to say it is enlightenment. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  28. I am hear to say I love you.I am hear to say I feel you.I am hear to say I care for you.I am hear to say, I really do. – Debasish Mridha
  29. Will the stars say yes? Will the moon say yes? Will the sky say yes? Who will say yes when I will ask you.. will you marry me? – Dr Karan M Pai
  30. When you have something good to say, say it. When you have something ill to say, say something else. – Christian D Larson
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  32. The repulsive actions of the person who abused you do not identify you. – Tanya R Liverman
  33. Whilst you can be a stepping stone to help others succeed, you are not a dirty mat to be abused by others. – Archibald Marwizi
  34. There is a young abused girl whose recovery is dependent on your willingness to honour your calling as a pastor, social worker, psychologist, etc. – DS Mashego
  35. We have at our fingertips every pleasure that man is capable of enjoying, and man has abused every gift God ever gave him. – Billy Graham
  36. I would just as soon have abused the old village church at home for not being a cathedral. – Joseph Conrad
  37. A determined man, a man who believes himself grossly abused, does not listen to reason – Lucinda Brant
  38. Authority-”when abused through micromanagement, intimidation, or verbal or nonverbal threats-”makes people shut down & productivity ceases. – John Stoker
  39. A child that’s being abused by its parents doesn’t stop loving its parents, it stops loving itself. – Shahida Arabi
  40. Domestic abusers and the abused need to develop healthy support systems… – Asa Don Brown

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