Tag: William Makepeace Thackeray
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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.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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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!
William Makepeace 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.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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‘Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
William Makepeace Thackeray