Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYTo be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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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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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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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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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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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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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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