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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?
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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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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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To our betters eve can reconcile ourselves, if you please--respecting them sincerely, laughing at their jokes, making allowance for their stupidities, meekly suffering their insolence but we can't pardon our equals going beyond us.
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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.
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Almost all women have hearts full of pity.
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What is wanted for the nonce is, that folks should be as agreeable as possible in conversation and demeanor so that good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in societ.
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Nature has written a letter of credit upon some men's faces that is honored wherever presented. You cannot help trusting such men. Their very presence gives confidence. There is promise to pay in their faces which gives confidence and you prefer it to another man's endorsement. Character is credit.
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This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is - A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never could outdo Green herbs, red peppers, mussels, saffron, Soles, onions, garlic, roach, and dace All these you eat at Terre's tavern, In that one dish of Bouillabaisse.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?
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It is best to love wisely, no doubt but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.'
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When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.
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A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.
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We love being in love, that's the truth on't.
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I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning.
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So, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.
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