The best of women are hypocrites.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYWhen you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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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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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.”
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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.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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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.
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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Humor is wit and love.
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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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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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