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• Who has not seen how women bully women? What tortures have men to endure compared to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which poor women are riddled by the tyrants of their sex?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Sex, Men, Tyrants

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1848). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.111

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• All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Vanity, Looks, Preacher

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1872). “The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray”, p.264

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• The best of women are hypocrites.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Hypocrite, Deceit

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• As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run. . . . What an interest it imparts to life!.

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  Running, Home, Winning

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.6938, Delphi Classics

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• When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Flower, Journey, Hiking

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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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  Believe, Found, Percentages

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “The Book of Snobs”, p.4, Booklassic

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• If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!

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  People, Population, Would Be

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “Vanity Fair”, p.224, BookRix

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• 'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

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  Women, Angel, Thinking

  The History of Henry Esmond bk. 1, ch. 7 (1852)

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• A man is seldom more manly than when he is what you call unmanned,--the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and courage; the instinctive desire to cherish those who are innocent and unhappy, and defend those who are tender and weak.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Men, Tears, Unhappy

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.130

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• Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Children, Play, Desire

  Vanity Fair ch. 67 (1847 - 1848)

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• Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Wise, Fate, Vanity

  'Vanitas Vanitatum'

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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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  Vanity, Wicked, Foolish

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2016). “Vanity Fair (Diversion Classics)”, p.103, Diversion Books

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• It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute's delay or advance.

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  Fate, Destiny, Past

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Catherine. Little travels The Fitz-Boodle papers, etc. etc”, p.89

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• In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Grace, Faces, Form

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• What is a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise; and possessed of all these qualities to exercise them in the most graceful manner.

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  Wise, Exercise, Brave

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2005). “The Snobs of England: And, Punch's Prize Novelists”, p.8, University of Michigan Press

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• Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and planted it, so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn costs nothing, but it may spread into a prodigious timber.

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  Kindness, Pockets, Cost

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• True love is better than glory.

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  Love, Love Is, Glory

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1868). “The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century”, p.225

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• When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.

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  Love, Men, Connected

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1868). “The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century”, p.181

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• The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.

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  Kindness, Suffering, World

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1862). “The adventures of Philip on his way through the world”, p.158

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• Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us - the voyage we must make alone.

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  Piers, Voyages, Walks

  William Makepeace Thackeray, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899). “The works of William Makepeace Thackeray”

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• To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

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  Ambition, Greatness, Ends

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1859). “The Oxford Thackeray: With Illustrations”, p.989

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• We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.

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  Friendship, Lonely, Loneliness

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Henry Esmond: And Lovel the Widower”, p.362

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• Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Book, Done, World

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.”, p.6, Booklassic

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• If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.

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  Ruins, Easy, Know How

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1849). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.152

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• Almost all women will give a sympathizing hearing to men who are in love. Be they ever so old, they grow young again with that conversation, and renew their own early times.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Women, Love Is, Giving

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1873). “Works”, p.457

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