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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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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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Could the best and kindest of us who depart from the earth have an opportunity of revisiting it, I suppose he or she (assuming that any Vanity Fair feelings subsist in the sphere whither we are bound) would have a pang of mortification at finding how soon our survivors were consoled.
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When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don't know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.
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'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.'
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.
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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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Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
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He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Perhaps there is no greater test of a man's regularity and easiness of conscience than his readiness to face the postman. Blessed is he who is made happy by the sound of a rat-tat! The good are eager for it but the naughty tremble at the sound thereof.
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