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William Makepeace Thackeray
Age: 52 †
Born: 1811
Born: July 18
Died: 1863
Died: December 24
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Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold the shy, confident the lazy, active and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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What is wanted for the nonce is, that folks should be as agreeable as possible in conversation and demeanor so that good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in societ.
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'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
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Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.
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I never was much of an oyster eater, nor can I relish them 'in naturalibus' as some do, but require a quantity of sauces, lemons, cayenne peppers, bread and butter, and so forth, to render them palatable.
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Taste is something quite different from fashion, superior to fashion.
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[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.
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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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He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.
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A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath him.
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If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again.
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A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate bloom of beauty.
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Almost all women have hearts full of pity.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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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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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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It is all very well for you, who have probably never seen any spiritual manifestations, to talk as you do but if you had seen what I have witnessed you would hold a different opinion.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
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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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