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...the greatest tyrants over women are women.
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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Calcutta
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike we create anger where we never meant harm and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion. - William Makepeace Thackeray
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Pray, dear madam, another glass it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm.
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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.
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There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.
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To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
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Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.
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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
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The play is done the curtain drops, Slow falling to the prompter's bell A moment yet the actor stops And looks around to say farewell.
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For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be had in listening to fine music, as in looking at the stars in the sky, or at a beautiful landscape or picture, was a benefit for which we might thank Heaven as sincerely as for any other worldly blessing.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.
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Werther had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter.
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I would rather make my name than inherit it.
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What is a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise and possessed of all these qualities to exercise them in the most graceful manner.
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