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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
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Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
William Makepeace Thackeray
I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can't have intimate terms and freedom with one and the other, they are of no good.
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.'
William Makepeace Thackeray
Be it remembered that man subsists upon the air more than upon his meat and drink but no one can exist for an hour without a copious supply of air. The atmosphere which some breathe is contaminated and adulterated, and with its vital principles so diminished that it cannot fully decarbonize the blood, nor fully excite the nervous system.
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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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Life is the soul's nursery.
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You can't order remembrance out of the mind and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
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Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us.
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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.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Nature has written a letter of credit upon some men's faces that is honored wherever presented. You cannot help trusting such men. Their very presence gives confidence. There is promise to pay in their faces which gives confidence and you prefer it to another man's endorsement. Character is credit.
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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
William Makepeace Thackeray
I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
William Makepeace Thackeray
An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.
William Makepeace Thackeray
