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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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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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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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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is - A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never could outdo Green herbs, red peppers, mussels, saffron, Soles, onions, garlic, roach, and dace All these you eat at Terre's tavern, In that one dish of Bouillabaisse.
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A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate bloom of beauty.
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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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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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Ah! gracious Heaven gives us eyes to see our own wrong, however dim age may make them and knees not too stiff to kneel, in spite of years, cramp, and rheumatism.
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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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Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us.
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Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
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An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.
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Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and planted it, so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn costs nothing, but it may spread into a prodigious timber.
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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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