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Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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William Makepeace Thackeray
Age: 52 †
Born: 1811
Born: July 18
Died: 1863
Died: December 24
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Calcutta
William Makepeace Thackeray
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There is a certain sort of man whose doom in the world is disappointment, who excels in it, and whose luckless triumphs in his meek career of life, I have often thought, must be regarded by the kind eyes above with as much favor as the splendid successes and achievements of coarser and more prosperous men.
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If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?
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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.
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Almost all women have hearts full of pity.
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The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.
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We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean.
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An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.
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The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.
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