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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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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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