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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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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning.
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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.
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What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
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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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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
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