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If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!
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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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles and not the least headache in the morning, I give you my word on the contrary, you only wake with a sweet refreshing thirst for claret and water.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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So, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.
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