The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYAll is vanity, nothing is fair.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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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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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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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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Humor is wit and love.
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
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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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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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