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Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.
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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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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There is a certain sort of man whose doom in the world is disappointment, who excels in it, and whose luckless triumphs in his meek career of life, I have often thought, must be regarded by the kind eyes above with as much favor as the splendid successes and achievements of coarser and more prosperous men.
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'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
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Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
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To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us.
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Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us - the voyage we must make alone.
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Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
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The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
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