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One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes or your own.
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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The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it or of the lip,s though they cannot speak.
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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
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The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.
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Business first pleasure afterwards.
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I will bring order from chaos and light from darkness.
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As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too and yet we, O foolish race! must try our very best to ape some one or two of our neighbors, whose ideas fit us no more than their breeches!
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It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
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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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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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Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.
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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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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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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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What will a man not do when frantic with love? To what baseness will he not demean himself? What pangs will he not make others suffer, so that he may ease his selfish heart?
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Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks
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