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What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
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
George Fitz-Boodle
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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?
William Makepeace Thackeray
Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
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Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended.
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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
William Makepeace Thackeray
It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?
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You read the past in some old faces.
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Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival.
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When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don't know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity is often the unseen spur.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
William Makepeace Thackeray
For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all.
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.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?
William Makepeace Thackeray
Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?
William Makepeace Thackeray
