We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYOh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Humor is wit and love.
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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.
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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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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
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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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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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