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When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.
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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Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
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There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.
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Be it remembered that man subsists upon the air more than upon his meat and drink but no one can exist for an hour without a copious supply of air. The atmosphere which some breathe is contaminated and adulterated, and with its vital principles so diminished that it cannot fully decarbonize the blood, nor fully excite the nervous system.
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Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector.
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It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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If you will fling yourself under the wheels, Juggernaut will go over you depend upon it.
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Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?
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Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.
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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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