All is vanity, nothing is fair.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYWhat a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Humor is wit and love.
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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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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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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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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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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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