Vanity is often the unseen spur.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYMother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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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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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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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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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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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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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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One of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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