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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best being pleased by repeated trials, to make . . . pure spirits more pure.
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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William Makepeace Thackeray
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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It is all very well for you, who have probably never seen any spiritual manifestations, to talk as you do but if you had seen what I have witnessed you would hold a different opinion.
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Humor is the mistress of tears.
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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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Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?
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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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The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
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It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
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Perhaps there is no greater test of a man's regularity and easiness of conscience than his readiness to face the postman. Blessed is he who is made happy by the sound of a rat-tat! The good are eager for it but the naughty tremble at the sound thereof.
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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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Not only is the world informed of everything about you, but of a great deal more.
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Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.
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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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What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative what a kind, good-natured old creature we find her!
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As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run. . . . What an interest it imparts to life!.
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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.
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