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I would rather make my name than inherit it.
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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Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?
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The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.
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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best being pleased by repeated trials, to make . . . pure spirits more pure.
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He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.
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I will bring order from chaos and light from darkness.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.
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The little cares, fears, tears, timid misgivings, sleepless fancies of I don't know how many days and nights, were forgotten under one moment's influence of that familiar, irresistible smile.
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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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You read the past in some old faces.
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I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can't have intimate terms and freedom with one and the other, they are of no good.
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Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
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Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.
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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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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and planted it, so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn costs nothing, but it may spread into a prodigious timber.
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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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When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don't know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.
William Makepeace Thackeray
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
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We love being in love, that's the truth on't.
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