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Dinner was made for eating, not for talking. (William Makepeace Thackeray)
It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit. View quote
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind? View quote
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A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible. View quote
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa. View quote
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It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob. View quote
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... the greatest tyrants over women are women. View quote
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If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is. View quote
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is. View quote
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The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice. View quote
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person. (William Makepeace Thackeray)
It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons. View quote
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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best being pleased by repeated trials, to make ... pure spirits more pure. View quote
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If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be! View quote
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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions. View quote
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No business before breakfast, Glum says the King. Breakfast first, business next. View quote
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The best of women are hypocrites. View quote
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If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor. View quote
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It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it. View quote
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Our great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they can not separate from our consciousness, shall follow it whithersoever that shall go, and are of their nature divine and immortal. View quote
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When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day. (William Makepeace Thackeray)
Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue. View quote
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If a man has committed wrong in life, I dont know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations. View quote
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She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day. View quote
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For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be had in listening to fine music, as in looking at the stars in the sky, or at a beautiful landscape or picture, was a benefit for which we might thank Heaven as sincerely as for any other worldly blessing. View quote
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