Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYKindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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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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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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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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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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