A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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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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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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Humor is wit and love.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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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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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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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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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.
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