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People Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray
- People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
- 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…
- Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.
- To describe love-making is immoral and immodest; you know it is. To describe it as it really is, or would appear to you and me…
- We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors:…
- People hate as they love, unreasonably.
- it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody
- If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!
- The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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