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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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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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?
William Makepeace Thackeray
Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.
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Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.
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We pass by common objects or persons without noticing them but the keen eye detects and notes types everywhere and among all classes.
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An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.
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Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
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The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.
William Makepeace Thackeray
We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean.
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Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody
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Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious, - a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the senses, and yet enflames them, - the truffles were coming.
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If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.
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A man is seldom more manly than when he is what you call unmanned,--the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and courage the instinctive desire to cherish those who are innocent and unhappy, and defend those who are tender and weak.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Pray, dear madam, another glass it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm.
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Life is the soul's nursery.
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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.
William Makepeace Thackeray
It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute's delay or advance.
William Makepeace Thackeray
