Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYA fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute’s delay or advance.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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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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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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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
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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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Pray God, keep us simple.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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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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