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A person can’t help their birth.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Frequent the company of your betters.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Bravery never goes out of fashion.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray There is a skeleton in every house.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray All is vanity, nothing is fair.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray 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 ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
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