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To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.
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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William Makepeace Thackeray
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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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Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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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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...the greatest tyrants over women are women.
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How do men feel whose whole lives (and many men's lives are) are lies, schemes, and subterfuges? What sort of company do they keep when they are alone? Daily in life I watch men whose every smile is an artifice, and every wink is an hypocrisy. Doth such a fellow where a mask in his own privacy, and to his own conscience?
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We can't all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
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That which we call a snob by any other name would still be snobbish.
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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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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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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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If you will fling yourself under the wheels, Juggernaut will go over you depend upon it.
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To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
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A man is seldom more manly than when he is what you call unmanned,--the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and courage the instinctive desire to cherish those who are innocent and unhappy, and defend those who are tender and weak.
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Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended.
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As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.
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If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!
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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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It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
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We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean.
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The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.
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