Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThe 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 lips though they cannot speak.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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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.
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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.
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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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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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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.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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