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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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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The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.
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The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.
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Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
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I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning.
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Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.
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True love is better than glory.
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I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can't have intimate terms and freedom with one and the other, they are of no good.
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Could the best and kindest of us who depart from the earth have an opportunity of revisiting it, I suppose he or she (assuming that any Vanity Fair feelings subsist in the sphere whither we are bound) would have a pang of mortification at finding how soon our survivors were consoled.
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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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Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.
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Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life, that is the most wholesome society learn to admire rightly the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admire.
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Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?
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Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.
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It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean.
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The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.
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If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.
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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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Frequent the company of your betters.
William Makepeace Thackeray
