The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYI believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don’t want a rose to sing.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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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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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute’s delay or advance.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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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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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?
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