What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYDare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
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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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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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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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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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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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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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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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