Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIn the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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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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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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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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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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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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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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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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