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It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
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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Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.
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If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?
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I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
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Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.
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As fits the holy Christmas birth, Be this, good friends, our carol still Be peace on earth, be peace on earth, To men of gentle will.
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