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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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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Calcutta
William Makepeace Thackeray
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An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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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.
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The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.
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You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob.
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The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.
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if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and trameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably!
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Certain it is that scandal is good brisk talk, whereas praise of one's neighbor is by no means lively hearing. An acquaintance grilled, scored, devilled, and served with mustard and cayenne pepper excites the appetite whereas a slice of cold friend with currant jelly is but a sickly, unrelishing meat.
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If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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