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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.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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William Makepeace Thackeray
Age: 52 †
Born: 1811
Born: July 18
Died: 1863
Died: December 24
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William Makepeace Thackeray
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Not only is the world informed of everything about you, but of a great deal more.
William Makepeace Thackeray
How do men feel whose whole lives (and many men's lives are) are lies, schemes, and subterfuges? What sort of company do they keep when they are alone? Daily in life I watch men whose every smile is an artifice, and every wink is an hypocrisy. Doth such a fellow where a mask in his own privacy, and to his own conscience?
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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That which we call a snob by any other name would still be snobbish.
William Makepeace Thackeray
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
William Makepeace Thackeray
I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.
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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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If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.
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Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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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It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
William Makepeace Thackeray
When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
William Makepeace Thackeray
We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best being pleased by repeated trials, to make . . . pure spirits more pure.
William Makepeace Thackeray
An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Could the best and kindest of us who depart from the earth have an opportunity of revisiting it, I suppose he or she (assuming that any Vanity Fair feelings subsist in the sphere whither we are bound) would have a pang of mortification at finding how soon our survivors were consoled.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us - the voyage we must make alone.
William Makepeace Thackeray
