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Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.
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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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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Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts.
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Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
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An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.
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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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If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again.
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Werther had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter.
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Life is the soul's nursery.
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If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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Sure, love vincit omnia is immeasurably above all ambition, more precious than wealth, more noble than name. He knows not life who knows not that: he hath not felt the highest faculty of the soul who hath not enjoyed it.
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If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.
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It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
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We pass by common objects or persons without noticing them but the keen eye detects and notes types everywhere and among all classes.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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True love is better than glory.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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