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Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.
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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Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
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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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Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.
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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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The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.
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