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To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
William Makepeace Thackeray
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William Makepeace Thackeray
Age: 52 †
Born: 1811
Born: July 18
Died: 1863
Died: December 24
Novelist
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Calcutta
William Makepeace Thackeray
George Fitz-Boodle
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Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
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Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.
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Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.
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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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Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.
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I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
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Ah! gracious Heaven gives us eyes to see our own wrong, however dim age may make them and knees not too stiff to kneel, in spite of years, cramp, and rheumatism.
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She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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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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