Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThere is a skeleton in every house.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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A person can’t help their birth.
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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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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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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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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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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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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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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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