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An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate bloom of beauty. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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But, lo! and just as the coach drove off, Miss Sharp put her pale face out of the window and actually flung the book back into the garden. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us - the voyage we must make alone. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do - a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the old and the inauguration of the New Year. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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...to be skillful in domestic duties was surely one of the most charming of woman's qualities. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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These are trivial details, but they relate to happy times. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Humor is wit and love. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may? -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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They talked about each others' houses, and characters, and families
just as the Joneses do about the Smiths. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run ... What an interest it imparts to life!. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess 'em. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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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
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There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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before I was married I didn't care what bills I put my name to, and so long as Moses would wait or Levy would renew for three months, I kept on never minding. But since I'm married, except renewing, of course, I give you my honour I've not touched a bit of stamped paper. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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If you had told Sycorax that her son Caliban was as handsome as Apollo, she would have been pleased, witch as she was. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make ... pure spirits more pure. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Such people there are living and flourishing in the world - Faithless, Hopeless, Charityless: let us have at them, dear friends, with might and main. Some there are, and very successful too, mere quacks and fools: and it was to combat and expose such as those, no doubt, that Laughter was made, -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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People hate as they love, unreasonably. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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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
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Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is - A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never could outdo; Green herbs, red peppers, mussels, saffron, Soles, onions, garlic, roach, and dace; All these you eat at Terre's tavern, In that one dish of Bouillabaisse. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Here was a tranquil, sunshiny day of a life that was to be agitated and stormy - a happy hour or two to remember. Not much happened during the happy hour or two. It was only sweet sleep, pleasant waking, friendly welcome, serene pastime. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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I never was much of an oyster eater, nor can I relish them 'in naturalibus' as some do, but require a quantity of sauces, lemons, cayenne peppers, bread and butter, and so forth, to render them palatable. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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How grateful are we
how touched a frank and generous heart is for a kind word extended to us in our pain! The pressure of a tender hand nerves a man for an operation, and cheers him for the dreadful interview with the surgeon. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Think of the condition of Europe for twenty years before, where people were fighting, not by thousands, but by millions; each one of whom as he struck his enemy wounded horribly some other innocent heart far away. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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The little cares, fears, tears, timid misgivings, sleepless fancies of I don't know how many days and nights, were forgotten under one moment's influence of that familiar, irresistible smile. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Almost all women will give a sympathizing hearing to men who are in love. Be they ever so old, they grow young again with that conversation, and renew their own early times. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Could the best and kindest of us who depart from the earth have an opportunity of revisiting it, I suppose he or she (assuming that any Vanity Fair feelings subsist in the sphere whither we are bound) would have a pang of mortification at finding how soon our survivors were consoled. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Peace to thee, kind and selfish, vain and generous old heathen! - We shall see thee no more. Let us hope that Lady Jane supported her kindly, and led her with gentle hand out of the busy struggle of Vanity Fair. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and ~ charity, a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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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
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money us! -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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That acknowledgment of weakness which we make in imploring to be relieved from hunger and from temptation is surely wisely put in our daily prayer. Think of it, you who are rich, and take heed how you turn a beggar away. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Sure, love vincit omnia; is immeasurably above all ambition, more precious than wealth, more noble than name. He knows not life who knows not that: he hath not felt the highest faculty of the soul who hath not enjoyed it. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise
a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy? -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone? -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Titles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain! -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,
the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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And by these wonderful circumstances I was once more free again: and I kept my resolution then made, never to fall more into the hands of any recruiter, and henceforth and for ever to be a gentleman. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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It is better to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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He was always thinking of his brother's soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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I would rather make my name then inherit it. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Long brooding over those lost pleasures exaggerates their charm and sweetness. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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She lived in her past life- these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that was left her in the world. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Almost all women have hearts full of pity. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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perdition. She knew the poor tradesmen who were bankrupt by -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Happiest time of youth and life, when love is first spoken and returned; when the dearest eyes are daily shining welcome, and the fondest lips never tire of whispering their sweet secrets; when the parting look that accompanies "Good night!" gives delightful warning of tomorrow. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes or your own. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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I can't help always falling upon it, and cry out with particular loudness and wailing, and become especially melancholy, when I see a dead love tied to a live love. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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He had not got beyond the theory as yet - the practice of life was all to come. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Oh, my young friends, how delightful is the beginning of a love-business, and how undignified, sometimes, the end! -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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He went to the deuce for a woman. There must be good in a man who will do that. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Frequent the company of your betters. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be! -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Bad husbands will make bad wives. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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It may be whispered to those uninitiated people who are anxious to know the habits and make the acquaintance of men of letters, that there are no race of people who talk about books, or, perhaps, who read books, so little as literary men. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath him. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the least headache in the morning, I give you my word; on the contrary, you only wake with a sweet refreshing thirst for claret and water. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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What will a man not do when frantic with love? To what baseness will he not demean himself? What pangs will he not make others suffer, so that he may ease his selfish heart? -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Here is a minute. It may be my love is dead, but here is a minute to kneel over the grave and pray by it. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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And, perhaps, Mr. Dobbin's sentimental Amelia was no more like the real one than this absurd little print which he cherished. But what man in love, of us, is better informed? - or is he much happier when he sees and owns his delusion? -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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But it's a changeable world! When we consider how great our sorrow seem, and how small they are; how we think we shall die of grief, and how quickly we forget, I think we ought to be ashamed of ourselves and our fickle-heartedness. For, after all, what business has Time to bring us consolation? -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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The ladies
Heaven bless them!
are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Perhaps there is no greater test of a man's regularity and easiness of conscience than his readiness to face the postman. Blessed is he who is made happy by the sound of a rat-tat! The good are eager for it; but the naughty tremble at the sound thereof. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Revenge may be wicked, but it's natural. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim. Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Novelty has charms that our mind can hardly withstand. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better
especially richer or more fashionable
than he is. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.' -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbour? A comfortable career of prosperity, if it does not make people honest, at least keeps them so. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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The best of women are hypocrites. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard ... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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I should like to know what well-constituted mind, merely because it is transitory, dislikes roast beef? -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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We can't all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Isidor thought for a moment he had gone mad, and that he wished his valet to cut his throat. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied? -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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You can't order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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As fits the holy Christmas birth, Be this, good friends, our carol still Be peace on earth, be peace on earth, To men of gentle will. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Bravery never goes out of fashion. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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There are other books in a man's library besides Ovid, and after dawdling ever so long at a woman's knee, one day he gets up and is free. We have all been there; we have all had the fever
the strongest and the smallest, from Samson, Hercules, Rinaldo, downward: but it burns out, and you get well. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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A gentleman sitting in spectacles before an old ledger, and writing down pitiful remembrances of his own condition, is a quaint and ridiculous object. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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We love being in love, that's the truth on't. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Women are jealous of cigars ... they regard them as a strong rival. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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He had placed himself at her feet so long that the poor little woman had been accustomed to trample upon him. She didn't wish to marry him, but she wished to keep him. She wished to give him nothing, but that he should give her all. It is a bargain not unfrequently levied in love. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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To our betters eve can reconcile ourselves, if you please
respecting them sincerely, laughing at their jokes, making allowance for their stupidities, meekly suffering their insolence; but we can't pardon our equals going beyond us. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Charming Alnaschar visions! It is the happy privilege of youth to construct you, and many a fanciful creature besides Rebecca Sharp has indulged in these delightful daydreams ere now! -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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That which we call a snob by any other name would still be snobbish. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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The captain would ... turn off the conversation, like a consummate man of the world, to some topic of general interest, such as the Opera, the Prince's last ball at Carlton House, or the weather - that blessing to society. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Picture to yourself, O fair young reader, a worldly, selfish, graceless, thankless, religionless old woman, writhing in pain and fear, and without her wig. Picture her to yourself, and ere you be old, learn to love and pray. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends ... -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Lower himself!" says the lady, with a toss of her head. "No man lowers himself by pursuing an honest calling. No man! -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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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
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The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Pray God, keep us simple. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, "Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long." -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don't know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Werther had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter; Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion. - William Makepeace Thackeray -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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If you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and trameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably! -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative; what a kind, good-natured old creature we find her! -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me? -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lip,s though they cannot speak. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart? -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter? -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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A man is seldom more manly than when he is what you call unmanned,
the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and courage; the instinctive desire to cherish those who are innocent and unhappy, and defend those who are tender and weak. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations ... -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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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. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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He dark walks, so favourable to the interviews of young lovers -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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True love is better than glory. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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All is vanity, nothing is fair. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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The bearded creatures are quite as eager for praise, quite as finikin over their toilets, quite as proud of their personal advantages, quite as conscious of their powers of fascination, as any coquette in the world. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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I would rather make my name than inherit it. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth
the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Nature has written a letter of credit upon some men's faces that is honored wherever presented. You cannot help trusting such men. Their very presence gives confidence. There is promise to pay in their faces which gives confidence and you prefer it to another man's endorsement. Character is credit. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Vanity is often the unseen spur. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet we, O foolish race! must try our very best to ape some one or two of our neighbors, whose ideas fit us no more than their breeches! -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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We pass by common objects or persons without noticing them; but the keen eye detects and notes types everywhere and among all classes. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Though small was your allowance,
You saved a little store:
And those who save a little,
Shall get a plenty more. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind? -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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It is in the nature and instinct of some women. Some are made to scheme, and some to love; and I wish any respected bachelor that reads this may take the sort that best likes him. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are! -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can't have intimate terms and freedom with one and the other, they are of no good. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have a life enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign it after, at the most, some forty years lease -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Let me whisper my belief, entre nous, that of those eminent philosophers who cry out against parsons the loudest, there are not many who have got their knowledge of the church by going thither often. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history? -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Life is the soul's nursery. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin That never has known the barber's shear, All your wish is woman to win, This is the way that boys begin. Wait till you come to Forty Year. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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I hope the artist who illustrates this work will take care to do justice to his portrait. Mr. Clive himself, let that painter be assured, will not be too well pleased if his countenance and figure do not receive proper attention. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Ah! gracious Heaven gives us eyes to see our own wrong, however dim age may make them; and knees not too stiff to kneel, in spite of years, cramp, and rheumatism. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend? -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots? -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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The stiff-backed prig, with his dandified airs and West End swagger. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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When a mother, as fond mothers will; vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to know a great deal too much. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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It is all very well for you, who have probably never seen any spiritual manifestations, to talk as you do; but if you had seen what I have witnessed you would hold a different opinion. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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What tortures have men to endure, comparable to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which poor women are riddled by the tyrants of their sex? -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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How lonely we are in the world; how selfish and secret, everybody! -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious, - a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the senses, and yet enflames them, - the truffles were coming. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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It is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Diffidence is a sort of false modesty. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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If you will fling yourself under the wheels, Juggernaut will go over you; depend upon it. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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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
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Humor is the mistress of tears. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells? -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Mother is God in the eyes of a child. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so? -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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What is a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise; and possessed of all these qualities to exercise them in the most graceful manner. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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I can endure poverty but not shame-neglect but not insult,and insult from you.. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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I will bring order from chaos and light from darkness. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Time passes, Time the consoler, Time the anodyne. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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A good laugh is sunshine in a house -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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The play is done; the curtain drops,
Slow falling to the prompter's bell
A moment yet the actor stops
And looks around to say farewell. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Mr Moss's courtyard is railed in like a cage, lest the gentlemen who are boarding with him should take a fancy to escape from his hospitality. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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The wine is drawn, M. le Marquis...we must drink it.' -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Taste is something quite different from fashion, superior to fashion. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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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
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Not only is the world informed of everything about you, but of a great deal more. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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To those great geniuses now in petticoats, who shall write novels for the beloved reader's children, these men and things will be as much legend and history as Nineveh, or Coeur de Lion, or Jack Sheppard. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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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
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life, that is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admire. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Pray, dear madam, another glass; it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob
perhaps that is a safe definition of the character. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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This abattement and degradation did not take place all at once; it was brought about by degrees -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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His Scotch bear-leader, Mr Boswell, was a butt of the first quality. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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A person can't help their birth. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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There is a skeleton in every house. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do. The successful people don't always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Who does not believe his first passion eternal? -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Your comedy and mine will have been played then, and we shall be removed -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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You read the past in some old faces. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Time has dealt kindly with that stout officer, as it does ordinarily with men who have good stomachs and good tempers, and are not perplexed over much by fatigue of the brain. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with proud stomachs. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Dinner was made for eating, not for talking. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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...the greatest tyrants over women are women. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Women only know how to wound so. There is a poison on the tips of their little shafts, which stings a thousand times more than a man's blunter weapon. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your wealth. -- William Makepeace Thackeray