Humor is wit and love.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYRevenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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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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Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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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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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
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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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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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