Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYMother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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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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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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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak.
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Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
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