It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYVanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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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.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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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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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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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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Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
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When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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