The best of women are hypocrites.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYLife without laughing is a dreary blank.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do. The successful people don’t always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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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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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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