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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYVanity is often the unseen spur.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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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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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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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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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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