All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
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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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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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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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Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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