All is vanity, nothing is fair.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThere are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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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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Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
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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.
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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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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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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don’t know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.
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