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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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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William Makepeace Thackeray
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin That never has known the barber's shear, All your wish is woman to win, This is the way that boys begin. Wait till you come to Forty Year.
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To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.
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She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.
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Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
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In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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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.
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Humor is wit and love.
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The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.
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Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.
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