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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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If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful nights, and so forth but it is only in very sentimental novels that people occupy themselves perpetually with that passion, and I believe what are called broken hearts are a very rare article indeed.
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To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
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Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt how they deny themselves nothing how jolly and easy they are in their minds.
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That which we call a snob by any other name would still be snobbish.
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Time passes, Time the consoler, Time the anodyne.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.
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