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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!

William Makepeace Thackeray

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William Makepeace Thackeray
Age: 52 †
Born: 1811
Born: July 18
Died: 1863
Died: December 24
Novelist
Prosaist
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Calcutta
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Peacemaker
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He was always thinking of his brother's soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves.
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Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?
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it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody
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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal it will always be ahead of you.
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
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An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
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So they pass away: friends, kindred, the dearest-loved, grown people, aged, infants. As we go on the down-hill journey, the mile-stones are grave-stones, and on each more and more names are written unless haply you live beyond man's common age, when friends have dropped off, and, tottering, and feeble, and unpitied, you reach the terminus alone.
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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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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.
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If you will fling yourself under the wheels, Juggernaut will go over you depend upon it.
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Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.
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Happiest time of youth and life, when love is first spoken and returned when the dearest eyes are daily shining welcome, and the fondest lips never tire of whispering their sweet secrets when the parting look that accompanies Good night! gives delightful warning of tomorrow.
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A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.
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The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.
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