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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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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I never was much of an oyster eater, nor can I relish them 'in naturalibus' as some do, but require a quantity of sauces, lemons, cayenne peppers, bread and butter, and so forth, to render them palatable.
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Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?
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If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?
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At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles and not the least headache in the morning, I give you my word on the contrary, you only wake with a sweet refreshing thirst for claret and water.
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He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.
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If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.
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When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.
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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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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.
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