QUOTES by William M. Thackeray
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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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"Life is the soul's nursery -Its training place for the destinies of eternity."
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"To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?"
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"'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult."
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"And oh, what a mercy it is that these women do not exercise their powers oftener! We can't resist them, if they do. Let them show ever so little inclination, and men go down on their knees at once: old or ugly, it is all the same. And this I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did."
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"We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people -- leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs."
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"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."
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"There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa."
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"There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write."
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"It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit."
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"It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob."
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"An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through."
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"People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited."
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"What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes."
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"Certain opuscules, denominated 'Christmas Books,' with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the old and the inauguration of the new year"
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"So he sighed and pined and ogled,And his passion boiled and bubbled,Till he blew his silly brains out,And no more was by it troubled."
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"Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! -- what worthy man does not keep those in mind?"
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"It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all."
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"When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole."
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"I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses."
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"Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs."
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"Then sing as Martin Luther sang:"Who loves not wine, woman, and song,He is a fool his whole life long!"
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"A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible."
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"Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out."
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"If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business."
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"What peace, what love, what truth, what beauty, what happiness for all, what generous kindness for you and me, are here spread out!"
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"Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you."
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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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"I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do -- a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil."
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"There lived a sage in days of yore,And he a handsome pigtail wore;But wondered much and sorrowed moreBecause it hung behind him."
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"I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses."
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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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"'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel."
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"Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed."
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