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Learn to admire rightly the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired they admired great things narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
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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This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is - A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never could outdo Green herbs, red peppers, mussels, saffron, Soles, onions, garlic, roach, and dace All these you eat at Terre's tavern, In that one dish of Bouillabaisse.
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I will bring order from chaos and light from darkness.
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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal it will always be ahead of you.
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He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.
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Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Certain it is that scandal is good brisk talk, whereas praise of one's neighbor is by no means lively hearing. An acquaintance grilled, scored, devilled, and served with mustard and cayenne pepper excites the appetite whereas a slice of cold friend with currant jelly is but a sickly, unrelishing meat.
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At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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