All is vanity, nothing is fair.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYNo particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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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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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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Humor is wit and love.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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