It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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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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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
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Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do. The successful people don’t always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.
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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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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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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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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