All is vanity, nothing is fair.
("Vanity Fair")
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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I dont know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Oh, those women They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts . . .
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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
It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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