To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don’t want a rose to sing.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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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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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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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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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
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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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To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
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