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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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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
William Makepeace Thackeray
If you will fling yourself under the wheels, Juggernaut will go over you depend upon it.
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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.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back if you smile, it returns the greeting.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Happiest time of youth and life, when love is first spoken and returned when the dearest eyes are daily shining welcome, and the fondest lips never tire of whispering their sweet secrets when the parting look that accompanies Good night! gives delightful warning of tomorrow.
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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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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.
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The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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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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What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may?
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When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life, that is the most wholesome society learn to admire rightly the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admire.
William Makepeace Thackeray
How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.
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