What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYAll is vanity, nothing is fair.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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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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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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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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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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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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A person can’t help their birth.
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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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