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Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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William Makepeace Thackeray
Age: 52 †
Born: 1811
Born: July 18
Died: 1863
Died: December 24
Novelist
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Calcutta
William Makepeace Thackeray
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As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.
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How grateful are we--how touched a frank and generous heart is for a kind word extended to us in our pain! The pressure of a tender hand nerves a man for an operation, and cheers him for the dreadful interview with the surgeon.
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To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
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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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All is vanity, look you and so the preacher is vanity too.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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What will a man not do when frantic with love? To what baseness will he not demean himself? What pangs will he not make others suffer, so that he may ease his selfish heart?
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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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Who does not believe his first passion eternal?
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Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.
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I would rather make my name than inherit it.
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That acknowledgment of weakness which we make in imploring to be relieved from hunger and from temptation is surely wisely put in our daily prayer. Think of it, you who are rich, and take heed how you turn a beggar away.
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Business first pleasure afterwards.
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