The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYTo love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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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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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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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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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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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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