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That which we call a snob by any other name would still be snobbish.
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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Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts.
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Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue.
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If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?
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The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.
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Pray, dear madam, another glass it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm.
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Ah! gracious Heaven gives us eyes to see our own wrong, however dim age may make them and knees not too stiff to kneel, in spite of years, cramp, and rheumatism.
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The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.
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Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
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The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?
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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?
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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What, indeed, does not that word cheerfulness imply? It means a contented spirit, it means a pure heart, it means a kind and loving disposition it means humility and charity it means a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.
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Those who are gone, you have. Those who departed loving you, love you still and you love them always. They are not really gone, those dear hearts and true they are only gone into the next room and you will presently get up and follow them, and yonder door will close upon you, and you will be no more seen.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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