In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYTo 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.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
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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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Pray God, keep us simple.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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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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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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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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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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