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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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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I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do-a Work, if you like, with a great W a Purpose to fulfil ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.
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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.
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What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative what a kind, good-natured old creature we find her!
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As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.
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A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did.
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Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended.
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Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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You read the past in some old faces.
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Ah! gracious Heaven gives us eyes to see our own wrong, however dim age may make them and knees not too stiff to kneel, in spite of years, cramp, and rheumatism.
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Perhaps there is no greater test of a man's regularity and easiness of conscience than his readiness to face the postman. Blessed is he who is made happy by the sound of a rat-tat! The good are eager for it but the naughty tremble at the sound thereof.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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