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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
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Calcutta
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It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.
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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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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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There is a certain sort of man whose doom in the world is disappointment, who excels in it, and whose luckless triumphs in his meek career of life, I have often thought, must be regarded by the kind eyes above with as much favor as the splendid successes and achievements of coarser and more prosperous men.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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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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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Titles are abolished and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of 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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if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and trameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably!
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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.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.
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Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival.
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Time passes, Time the consoler, Time the anodyne.
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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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You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob.
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Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
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