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The best of women are hypocrites.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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William Makepeace Thackeray
Age: 52 †
Born: 1811
Born: July 18
Died: 1863
Died: December 24
Novelist
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Calcutta
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Hypocrites
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
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The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.
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What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative what a kind, good-natured old creature we find her!
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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