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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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A person can't help their birth.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did.
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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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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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The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen.
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She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.
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If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!
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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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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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Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt how they deny themselves nothing how jolly and easy they are in their minds.
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As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run. . . . What an interest it imparts to life!.
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Perhaps there is no greater test of a man's regularity and easiness of conscience than his readiness to face the postman. Blessed is he who is made happy by the sound of a rat-tat! The good are eager for it but the naughty tremble at the sound thereof.
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If you will fling yourself under the wheels, Juggernaut will go over you depend upon it.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.
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Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy?
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