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Only Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray
- At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the least headache in…
- It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
- We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean.
- We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then…
- When [men] see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her temper, her money,…
- A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like…
- Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.
- Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or…
- Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
- If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!
- And oh, what a mercy it is that these women do not exercise their powers oftener! We can't resist them, if they do. Let them…
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