William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes about Affection

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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.

It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Mistress, Affection, Easy

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

Life, Divinity, Affection

William Makepeace Thackeray (2014). “Henry Esmond: The English Humourists; The Four Georges”, p.341, Simon and Schuster