It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute’s delay or advance.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThe best of women are hypocrites.
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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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It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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One of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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