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Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival.
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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Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. Alas, the heart hardens as the blood ceases to run. The cold snow strikes down from the head, and checks the glow of feeling. Who wants to survive into old age after abdicating all his faculties one by one, and be sans teeth, sans eyes, sans memory, sans hope, sans sympathy?
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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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Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion and so let all young persons take their choice.
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'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.'
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All is vanity, look you and so the preacher is vanity too.
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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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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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