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• The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Equality, Differences, Meanness

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• As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Equality, Men, Rays

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1867). “Pendennis”, p.394

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• The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Contentment, Quality, Great Qualities

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1857). “Miscellanies: Prose and Verse. ¬The Fitz-Boodle papers. Men's wives. A shabby genteel story. The history of Samuel Titmarsh and the great Hoggarty diamond”, p.87

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• A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath him.

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  Book, Tree, Crow

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1872). “The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family”, p.1

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• Could the best and kindest of us who depart from the earth have an opportunity of revisiting it, I suppose he or she (assuming that any Vanity Fair feelings subsist in the sphere whither we are bound) would have a pang of mortification at finding how soon our survivors were consoled.

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  Opportunity, Vanity, Feelings

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1848). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.256

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• A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.

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  Marriage, Opportunity, May

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “Vanity Fair”, p.40, BookRix

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• He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he struggled for a moment, after which all was over. I shall never forget the comic look of despair he cast upon the other five over-occupied shells. I asked him how he felt. 'Profoundly grateful,' he said, 'as if I had swallowed a small baby.'

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  Baby, Grateful, Grace

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• Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Equality, Gold, Sticks

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval”, p.100

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• The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.

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  Struggle, Coward, Philosopher

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.387, Delphi Classics

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• He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Mean, Admire, Snob

  The Book of Snobs ch. 2 (1848)

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• Who does not believe his first passion eternal?

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  Believe, Passion, Doe

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1859). “The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century”, p.235

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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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  Mother, Father, Son

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1859). “The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century”, p.144

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• Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.

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  Sports, Lying, Passion

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• To know nothing, or little, is in the nature of some husbands. To hide, in the nature of how many women? Oh, ladies! how many of you have surreptitious milliners' bills? How many of you have gowns and bracelets which you daren't show, or which you wear trembling?--trembling, and coaxing with smiles the husband by your side, who does not know the new velvet gown from the old one, or the new bracelet from last year's, or has any notion that the ragged-looking yellow lace scarf cost forty guineas and that Madame Bobinot is writing dunning letters every week for the money!

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  Husband, Writing, Years

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.1026, Delphi Classics

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• Where is truth, forsooth, and who knoweth it? Is Beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so? Does Venus squint? Has she got a splay-foot, red hair, and a crooked back? Anoint my eyes, good Fairy Puck, so that I may ever consider the Beloved Object a paragon! Above all, keep on anointing my mistress's dainty peepers with the very strongest ointment, so that my noddle may ever appear lovely to her, and that she may continue to crown my honest ears with fresh roses!

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  Beautiful, Eye, Hair

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “The Virginians: Christie's Collections”, p.126, 谷月社

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• It is all very well for you, who have probably never seen any spiritual manifestations, to talk as you do; but if you had seen what I have witnessed you would hold a different opinion.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Spiritual, Different, Opinion

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