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There is a skeleton in every house.
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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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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I never was much of an oyster eater, nor can I relish them 'in naturalibus' as some do, but require a quantity of sauces, lemons, cayenne peppers, bread and butter, and so forth, to render them palatable.
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Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter.
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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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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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We are most of us very lonely in this world you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.
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You can't order remembrance out of the mind and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
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I would rather make my name than inherit it.
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Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.
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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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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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A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.
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Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do. The successful people don't always like these things themselves they just get on and do them.
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Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
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That acknowledgment of weakness which we make in imploring to be relieved from hunger and from temptation is surely wisely put in our daily prayer. Think of it, you who are rich, and take heed how you turn a beggar away.
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Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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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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