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Taste is something quite different from fashion, superior to fashion.
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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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best being pleased by repeated trials, to make . . . pure spirits more pure.
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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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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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We love being in love, that's the truth on't.
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Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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Time passes, Time the consoler, Time the anodyne.
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[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.
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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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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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Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. Alas, the heart hardens as the blood ceases to run. The cold snow strikes down from the head, and checks the glow of feeling. Who wants to survive into old age after abdicating all his faculties one by one, and be sans teeth, sans eyes, sans memory, sans hope, sans sympathy?
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Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Nature has written a letter of credit upon some men's faces that is honored wherever presented. You cannot help trusting such men. Their very presence gives confidence. There is promise to pay in their faces which gives confidence and you prefer it to another man's endorsement. Character is credit.
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The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.
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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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Certain it is that scandal is good brisk talk, whereas praise of one's neighbor is by no means lively hearing. An acquaintance grilled, scored, devilled, and served with mustard and cayenne pepper excites the appetite whereas a slice of cold friend with currant jelly is but a sickly, unrelishing meat.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold the shy, confident the lazy, active and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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