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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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The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it or of the lip,s though they cannot speak.
William Makepeace Thackeray
If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?
William Makepeace Thackeray
Pray God, keep us simple.
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If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.
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Time passes, Time the consoler, Time the anodyne.
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For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be had in listening to fine music, as in looking at the stars in the sky, or at a beautiful landscape or picture, was a benefit for which we might thank Heaven as sincerely as for any other worldly blessing.
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Werther had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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So, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.
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The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
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'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.
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Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector.
William Makepeace Thackeray
If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.
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Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.
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Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.
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She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.
William Makepeace Thackeray
You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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.
William Makepeace Thackeray
