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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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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As fits the holy Christmas birth, Be this, good friends, our carol still Be peace on earth, be peace on earth, To men of gentle will.
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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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As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too and yet we, O foolish race! must try our very best to ape some one or two of our neighbors, whose ideas fit us no more than their breeches!
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Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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You read the past in some old faces.
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If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?
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Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.
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When a mother, as fond mothers will vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to know a great deal too much.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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If you will fling yourself under the wheels, Juggernaut will go over you depend upon it.
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'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.'
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Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.
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Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.
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Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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