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• To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.

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  Riches, Rich

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1868). “The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century”, p.228

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• Bravery never goes out of fashion.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Memorial Day, Fashion, Courage

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1891). “The four Georges. Sketches and travels in London”

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• We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then was the old world. Stage-coaches, more or less swift, riding-horses, pack-horses, highwaymen, knights in armor, Norman invaders, Roman legions, Druids, Ancient Britons painted blue, and so forth -- all these belong to the old period. But your railroad starts the new era, and we of a certain age belong to the new time and the old one. We who lived before railways, and survive out of the ancient world, are like Father Noah and his family out of the Ark.

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  Horse, Father, Blue

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• Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.

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  Men, Spirit, Admiration

  William Makepeace Thackeray, Edgar F. Harden (2007). “The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century and Charity and Humour”, p.64, University of Michigan Press

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• People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

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  Conceited, Self, People

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1871). “Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval and other stories”, p.149

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• One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.

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  Lying, Believe, Order

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.141

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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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  Beauty, Clever, Successful

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1870). “Catherine: A Story”, p.233

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• There is a skeleton in every house.

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  Skeletons, House

  "Punch in the East" (1845)

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• Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.

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  Forgiving, Debt, Failing

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1871). “Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval and other stories”, p.121

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• Life without laughing is a dreary blank.

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  Laughter, Laughing, Blank

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1872). “The Book of Snobs: Sketches of Life and Character, Etc., Etc”, p.226

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• Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.

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  Fine Words, Half, Sauce

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.148

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• If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.

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  Love, Heart, Ifs

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1872). “The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family”, p.662

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• You can't order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.

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  Order, Yesterday, Remembrance

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1868). “The Works: In Twenty-two Volumes. ¬The Virginians : a tale of the last century ; vol. I”, p.90

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• Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.

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  Kindness, Proud, Disagree

  "The Adventures of Philip on His Way Through the World: Shewing who Robbed Him, who Helped Him, and who Passed Him by".

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• To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.

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  Couple, Sight, Age

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2014). “Henry Esmond: The English Humourists; The Four Georges”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Yield, World, Sometimes

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The memoirs of Barry Lyndon. The history of Samuel Titmarsh and the great Hoggarty diamond. Burlesques”, p.116

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• When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don't know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.

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  Mean, Doubt, Single Women

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.7107, Delphi Classics

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• It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

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  Levels, Lessons, Calamity

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• Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?

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  Happiness, Paradise, Serpent

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• People hate as they love, unreasonably.

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  Love, Hate, People

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2008). “The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family: Easyread Edition”, p.282, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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  Heart, Stones, Written

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• Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

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  Friends, Forget, Snob

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• Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

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  Women, Remember, Rich

  The History of Pendennis ch. 28 (1848 - 1850)

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• Humor is wit and love.

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  Humor, And Love, Wit

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.204

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• Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Inspirational, Being Strong, Stay Strong

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