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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYLife without laughing is a dreary blank.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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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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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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