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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.
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To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
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