If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYAn immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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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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A person can’t help their birth.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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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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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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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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