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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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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He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.
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We can't all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
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What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
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Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do. The successful people don't always like these things themselves they just get on and do them.
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Who does not believe his first passion eternal?
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.
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It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.
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If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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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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I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.
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She lived in her past life — every letter seemed to recall some circumstance of it. How well she remembered them all! His looks and tones, his dress, what he said and how — these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that were left her in the world.
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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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To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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