Humor is wit and love.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYTo 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.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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