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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYAll is vanity, nothing is fair.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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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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A person can’t help their birth.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute’s delay or advance.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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Humor is wit and love.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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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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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
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