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There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.
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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The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.
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He was always thinking of his brother's soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be had in listening to fine music, as in looking at the stars in the sky, or at a beautiful landscape or picture, was a benefit for which we might thank Heaven as sincerely as for any other worldly blessing.
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Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
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Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.
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A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did.
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