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The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
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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It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now
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The play is done the curtain drops, Slow falling to the prompter's bell A moment yet the actor stops And looks around to say farewell.
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Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?
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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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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
William Makepeace Thackeray
He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.
William Makepeace Thackeray
I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
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A man is seldom more manly than when he is what you call unmanned,--the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and courage the instinctive desire to cherish those who are innocent and unhappy, and defend those who are tender and weak.
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Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
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When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may?
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If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man to enslave him, and enflame him to make him even forget they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess 'em.
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Perhaps there is no greater test of a man's regularity and easiness of conscience than his readiness to face the postman. Blessed is he who is made happy by the sound of a rat-tat! The good are eager for it but the naughty tremble at the sound thereof.
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Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.
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