It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThe best of women are hypocrites.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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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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Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
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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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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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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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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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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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You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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