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When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don't know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.
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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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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How do men feel whose whole lives (and many men's lives are) are lies, schemes, and subterfuges? What sort of company do they keep when they are alone? Daily in life I watch men whose every smile is an artifice, and every wink is an hypocrisy. Doth such a fellow where a mask in his own privacy, and to his own conscience?
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That which we call a snob by any other name would still be snobbish.
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Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
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It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.
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Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
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How grateful are we--how touched a frank and generous heart is for a kind word extended to us in our pain! The pressure of a tender hand nerves a man for an operation, and cheers him for the dreadful interview with the surgeon.
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What is a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise and possessed of all these qualities to exercise them in the most graceful manner.
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True love is better than glory.
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When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
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The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.
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What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.
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'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
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