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Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.
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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The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it or of the lip,s though they cannot speak.
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It is all very well for you, who have probably never seen any spiritual manifestations, to talk as you do but if you had seen what I have witnessed you would hold a different opinion.
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Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.
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Could the best and kindest of us who depart from the earth have an opportunity of revisiting it, I suppose he or she (assuming that any Vanity Fair feelings subsist in the sphere whither we are bound) would have a pang of mortification at finding how soon our survivors were consoled.
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In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
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What, indeed, does not that word cheerfulness imply? It means a contented spirit, it means a pure heart, it means a kind and loving disposition it means humility and charity it means a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.
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He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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