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If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.
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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Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful nights, and so forth but it is only in very sentimental novels that people occupy themselves perpetually with that passion, and I believe what are called broken hearts are a very rare article indeed.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life, that is the most wholesome society learn to admire rightly the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admire.
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Life is the soul's nursery.
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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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Time passes, Time the consoler, Time the anodyne.
William Makepeace Thackeray
It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now
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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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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better--especially richer or more fashionable--than he is.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.
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What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?
William Makepeace Thackeray
A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
William Makepeace Thackeray
When a mother, as fond mothers will vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to know a great deal too much.
William Makepeace Thackeray
How do men feel whose whole lives (and many men's lives are) are lies, schemes, and subterfuges? What sort of company do they keep when they are alone? Daily in life I watch men whose every smile is an artifice, and every wink is an hypocrisy. Doth such a fellow where a mask in his own privacy, and to his own conscience?
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
William Makepeace Thackeray
If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
William Makepeace Thackeray
As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.
William Makepeace Thackeray
I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.
William Makepeace Thackeray
A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.
William Makepeace Thackeray
