QUOTES by William Makepeace
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Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells?
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Charming Alnaschar visions! It is the happy privilege of youth to construct you, and many a fanciful creature besides Rebecca Sharp has indulged in these delightful daydreams ere now!
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Mr Moss's courtyard is railed in like a cage, lest the gentlemen who are boarding with him should take a fancy to escape from his hospitality.
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His first and only love, whom he had adored ever since when? – ever since yesterday, ever since for ever.
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Lumea e o oglinda care ofera inapoi fiecaruia reflectia propriului chip. Daca te incrunti se incrunta si ea inapoi spre tine, daca razi devine si ea o companie vesela si placuta
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In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends...
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children; and here was one who was worshipping a stone!
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Are not there little chapters in everybody’s life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?
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[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.
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And by these wonderful circumstances I was once more free again: and I kept my resolution then made, never to fall more into the hands of any recruiter, and henceforth and for ever to be a gentleman.
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...to be skillful in domestic duties was surely one of the most charming of woman's qualities.
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Your comedy and mine will have been played then, and we shall be removed
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They talked about each others’ houses, and characters, and families--just as the Joneses do about the Smiths.
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He was always thinking of his brother's soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves.
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I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning.
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Long brooding over those lost pleasures exaggerates their charm and sweetness.
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... nobody does anything for nothing. ... it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody.
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A gentleman sitting in spectacles before an old ledger, and writing down pitiful remembrances of his own condition, is a quaint and ridiculous object.
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Time has dealt kindly with that stout officer, as it does ordinarily with men who have good stomachs and good tempers, and are not perplexed over much by fatigue of the brain.
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You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob.
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Oh, be humble, my brother, in your prosperity! Whose virtue is a deficiency of temptation, whose success may be a chance, whose rank may be an ancestor's accident, whose prosperity is very likely a satire.
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At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.
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Mark to yourself the gradual way in which you have been prepared for, and are now led by an irresistible necessity to enter upon your great labour.
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Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?
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Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and ~ charity, a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.
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Here is a minute. It may be my love is dead, but here is a minute to kneel over the grave and pray by it.
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I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do—a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.
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I can't help always falling upon it, and cry out with particular loudness and wailing, and become especially melancholy, when I see a dead love tied to a live love.
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It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now
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She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.
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A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
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Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim. Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.
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If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!
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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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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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Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.
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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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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.
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She lived in her past life- these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that was left her in the world.
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The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.
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