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 THACKERAYAn immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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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.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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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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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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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.
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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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