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“Follow your honest convictions, and stay strong.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

“I am rooted, but I flow.”
― Virginia Woolf

“When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“Never lose a chance of saying a kind word… An acorn costs nothing; but it may sprout into a prodigious bit of timber.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“The stiff-backed prig, with his dandified airs and West End swagger.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“Who was the blundering idiot who said that 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“He went to the deuce for a woman. There must be good in a man who will do that.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair