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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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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William Makepeace Thackeray
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The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?
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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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Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.
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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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I would rather make my name than inherit it.
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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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Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life, that is the most wholesome society learn to admire rightly the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admire.
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Pray, dear madam, another glass it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm.
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Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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There are other books in a man's library besides Ovid, and after dawdling ever so long at a woman's knee, one day he gets up and is free. We have all been there we have all had the fever--the strongest and the smallest, from Samson, Hercules, Rinaldo, downward: but it burns out, and you get well.
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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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Frequent the company of your betters.
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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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Humor is wit and love.
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Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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