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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThe world is good natured to people who are good natured.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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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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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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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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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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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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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
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