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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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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Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.
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Though small was your allowance, You saved a little store: And those who save a little, Shall get a plenty more.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Certain it is that scandal is good brisk talk, whereas praise of one's neighbor is by no means lively hearing. An acquaintance grilled, scored, devilled, and served with mustard and cayenne pepper excites the appetite whereas a slice of cold friend with currant jelly is but a sickly, unrelishing meat.
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Oh, my young friends, how delightful is the beginning of a love-business, and how undignified, sometimes, the end!
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One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success 't is the result of all the others 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may?
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What is a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise and possessed of all these qualities to exercise them in the most graceful manner.
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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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We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean.
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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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The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.
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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.
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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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If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?
William Makepeace Thackeray
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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There is a skeleton in every house.
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A person can't help their birth.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do. The successful people don't always like these things themselves they just get on and do them.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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