An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYFrequent the company of your betters.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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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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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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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.
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Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
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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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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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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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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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