"No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it."

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Source : "Thackeray and his Novels" by William Makepeace Thackeray, Blackwood's Mag, January 1854.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#Life Quotes #Habit Quotes #Motive Quotes

“White for light. White for love. White for forever.”

Source : Melissa de la Cruz (2010). “Masquerade: Number 2 in series”, p.152, Hachette UK
“He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.”
“I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If I like it, I don't feel guilty about it”
“I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.”
“People think that child-support enforcement benefits children, but it doesn't.”
“Comedy is what keeps us alive.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
“No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.”

Source : "Management". Book by Louis E. Boone, David L. Kurtz, Random House, Business Division, p. 100, 1987.
“Wherefore should I not offer my congratulations? But the very fact of them being Sayyids, those fountains of felicity, demands heartly exertions in support of Islam and their ancestor Muhammad the Lord of Apostles. Let two Kaftans of honor for the two brothers be issued from my wardrobe and let them be sent with two swords, jewel-hilted and provided with pearl mounted belts, let Jamdat-ul-Mulk write much praise and congratulations when sending these presents.”

Source : "Later Mughals: Volume II: 1719-1739". Book by William Irvine, 1922.

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