The best of women are hypocrites.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYVanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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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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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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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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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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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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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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Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
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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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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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