Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYI believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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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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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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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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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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Humor is wit and love.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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