In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYA person can’t help their birth.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, “Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.”
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Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do. The successful people don’t always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.
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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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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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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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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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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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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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