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Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
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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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.
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Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious, - a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the senses, and yet enflames them, - the truffles were coming.
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When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.
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Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.
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If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.
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Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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When a mother, as fond mothers will vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to know a great deal too much.
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Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.
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I never was much of an oyster eater, nor can I relish them 'in naturalibus' as some do, but require a quantity of sauces, lemons, cayenne peppers, bread and butter, and so forth, to render them palatable.
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