"Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions."

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William Makepeace Thackeray

#Vanity Quotes #Wicked Quotes #Foolish Quotes

“Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.”
“Book writing is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Anyone who decides to write a book must expect to invest a lot of time and effort without any guarantee of success. Books do not write themselves and they do not sell themselves. Authors write and promote their books.”

Source : Dan Poynter (2000). “Writing Nonfiction: Turning Thoughts Into Books”, Para Pub
“Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here.' "I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.”

Source : Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte (1990). “Nigger”, p.144, Simon and Schuster
“Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.”
“Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.”
“In the God of all creation, we put our faith and trust. And give our lives to you, cause you gave your life for us.”

Source : Song: Everywhere We Go, Album: Rise and Shine
“There is no English equivalent for the French word flÃ¢neur. Cassell's dictionary defines flÃ¢neur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms seems quite accurate. There is no English equivalent for the term, just as there is no Anglo-Saxon counterpart of that essentially Gallic individual, the deliberately aimless pedestrian, unencumbered by any obligation or sense of urgency, who, being French and therefore frugal, wastes nothing, including his time which he spends with the leisurely discrimination of a gourmet, savoring the multiple flavors of his city.”
“you can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain”

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