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If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?
William Makepeace Thackeray
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William Makepeace Thackeray
Age: 52 †
Born: 1811
Born: July 18
Died: 1863
Died: December 24
Novelist
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Calcutta
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.
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When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.
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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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If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes or your own.
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Oh, my young friends, how delightful is the beginning of a love-business, and how undignified, sometimes, the end!
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Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.
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When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.
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'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.'
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.
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You read the past in some old faces.
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...the greatest tyrants over women are women.
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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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As fits the holy Christmas birth, Be this, good friends, our carol still Be peace on earth, be peace on earth, To men of gentle will.
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All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.
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