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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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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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If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold the shy, confident the lazy, active and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Who does not believe his first passion eternal?
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Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
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When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.
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He was always thinking of his brother's soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves.
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A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath him.
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If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
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Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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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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Learn to admire rightly the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired they admired great things narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
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