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William Makepeace Thackeray

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Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
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Book Expression Fiction Happiness heavy History Laughter Life Live Myself Old Society Time
I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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Active Believe Man Moral Myself
To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained – who can say this is not greatness?
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Ambition Dare Difficult End Endurance Fortune Greatness Intrigue Tired
People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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Hate Love People Reason
Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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Desire Happiness Ourselves Satisfaction World
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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Best Choice Doubt Fools Love Wisdom
Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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Jealous Regard Rival Strong Woman
In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Alone Friendship Herself Kind Parents
Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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Different Eyes Money Value
A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
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Bright Enough Eyes Flame Forget Life Man Possession Reward
The best of women are hypocrites.
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Best Hypocrisy Woman
The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak.
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Decision Eyes Greatness Hands Life Lips Moments Talk World
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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Goal Horizon Live Success Yourself
Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Character Laughter People Selfish
Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
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Dinner Eat Goodness Health Man Mindset Reading

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