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What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
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 pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man to enslave him, and enflame him to make him even forget they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess 'em.
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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.
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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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Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.
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The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.
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Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.
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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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Ah! gracious Heaven gives us eyes to see our own wrong, however dim age may make them and knees not too stiff to kneel, in spite of years, cramp, and rheumatism.
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It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute's delay or advance.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Could the best and kindest of us who depart from the earth have an opportunity of revisiting it, I suppose he or she (assuming that any Vanity Fair feelings subsist in the sphere whither we are bound) would have a pang of mortification at finding how soon our survivors were consoled.
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If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?
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