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You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob as are you who boast of your wealth.
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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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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Humor is the mistress of tears.
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Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts.
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Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.
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If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.
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'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.'
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Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.
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Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.
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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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You read the past in some old faces.
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If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?
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One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success 't is the result of all the others 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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Happiest time of youth and life, when love is first spoken and returned when the dearest eyes are daily shining welcome, and the fondest lips never tire of whispering their sweet secrets when the parting look that accompanies Good night! gives delightful warning of tomorrow.
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It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
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So they pass away: friends, kindred, the dearest-loved, grown people, aged, infants. As we go on the down-hill journey, the mile-stones are grave-stones, and on each more and more names are written unless haply you live beyond man's common age, when friends have dropped off, and, tottering, and feeble, and unpitied, you reach the terminus alone.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.
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