If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYPeople hate as they love, unreasonably.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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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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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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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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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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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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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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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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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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