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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
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William Makepeace Thackeray
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When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.
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Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.
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What will a man not do when frantic with love? To what baseness will he not demean himself? What pangs will he not make others suffer, so that he may ease his selfish heart?
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'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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She lived in her past life — every letter seemed to recall some circumstance of it. How well she remembered them all! His looks and tones, his dress, what he said and how — these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that were left her in the world.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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Our great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they can not separate from our consciousness, shall follow it whithersoever that shall go, and are of their nature divine and immortal.
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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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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.
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Titles are abolished and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them.
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There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.
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Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and planted it, so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn costs nothing, but it may spread into a prodigious timber.
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So, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.
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Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
William Makepeace Thackeray
If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?
William Makepeace Thackeray
Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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