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Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy?
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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Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us.
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Sure, love vincit omnia is immeasurably above all ambition, more precious than wealth, more noble than name. He knows not life who knows not that: he hath not felt the highest faculty of the soul who hath not enjoyed it.
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To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
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You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob as are you who boast of your wealth.
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Titles are abolished and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them.
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells?
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