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• We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean.

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  Mean, Views, Looks

  William Makepeace Thackeray, Anthony Trollope “The works of William Makepeace Thackeray”

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• Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells?

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  Brother, Sick, Bells

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1848). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.91

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• The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.

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  Night, Sky, Growth

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2016). “Vanity Fair (Diversion Classics)”, p.47, Diversion Books

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• To be rich, to be famous? do these profit a year hence, when other names sound louder than yours, when you lie hidden away under ground, along with the idle titles engraven on your coffin? But only true love lives after you, follows your memory with secret blessings or pervades you, and intercedes for you. Non omnis moriar, if, dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am lost and hopeless, living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.

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  Memories, Lying, Heart

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1925). “The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne: Written by Himself”

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• If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?

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  Friendship, Use, Bitterness

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.9070, Delphi Classics

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• Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to be forced to yield; or to sink out of life, having played and lost the game? That must be a strange feeling, when a day of our life comes and we say, 'To-morrow, success or failure won't matter much; and the sun will rise, and all the myriads of mankind go to their work or their pleasure as usual, but I shall be out of the turmoil.'

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  Brother, Games, Yield

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.511

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• The little cares, fears, tears, timid misgivings, sleepless fancies of I don't know how many days and nights, were forgotten under one moment's influence of that familiar, irresistible smile.

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  Night, Tears, Care

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2016). “Vanity Fair (Diversion Classics)”, p.159, Diversion Books

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• Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue.

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  Cheating, Fall, Men

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.704, Delphi Classics

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• The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.

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  Journalism, Chairs, Editorials

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Roundabout Papers”, p.76

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• What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may?

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  Men, Rocks, Shelter

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2014). “Henry Esmond: The English Humourists; The Four Georges”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody

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  People, No Friends, Ordinary

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.662, Delphi Classics

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• Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.

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  Blind, Affair, Kitten

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “The History of Pendennis”, p.15, Booklassic

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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.

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  Equality, Differences, Meanness

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• If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men's failings, and recollect that we, too, were very likely indolent and voluptuous, had we no motive for work, a mortal's natural taste for pleasure, and the daily temptation of a large income. What could a great peer, with a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be splendid and idle?

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  Fashion, Men, Temptation

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.38

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• It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

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  Class, Safety, Looks

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1910*). “The English humourists. Critical reviews. The second funeral of Napoleon. The four Georges. Sketches and travels in London”

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• Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.

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  Conquer

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1868). “The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century”, p.50

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• There is a certain sort of man whose doom in the world is disappointment, who excels in it, and whose luckless triumphs in his meek career of life, I have often thought, must be regarded by the kind eyes above with as much favor as the splendid successes and achievements of coarser and more prosperous men.

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  Disappointment, Eye, Careers

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The Paris sketch book. Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush. The Irish sketch book. Notes of a journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo”, p.505

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• Forgotten tones of love recur to us, and kind glances shine out of the past--oh so bright and clear!--oh so longed after!--because they are out of reach; as holiday music from within a prison wall--or sunshine seen through the bars; more prized because unattainable--more bright because of the contrast of present darkness and solitude, whence there is no escape.

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  Love, Wall, Holiday

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1852). “The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray”, p.125

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• How grateful are we--how touched a frank and generous heart is for a kind word extended to us in our pain! The pressure of a tender hand nerves a man for an operation, and cheers him for the dreadful interview with the surgeon.

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  Gratitude, Pain, Cheer

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.2974, Delphi Classics

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• The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.

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  Brother, Children, Grief

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.1154, Delphi Classics

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• I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.

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  Men, Play, Acting

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1872). “The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray”, p.155

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• If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.

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  Men, Errors, World

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2016). “Vanity Fair”, p.205, Tyché

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

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  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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• 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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• To our betters eve can reconcile ourselves, if you please--respecting them sincerely, laughing at their jokes, making allowance for their stupidities, meekly suffering their insolence; but we can't pardon our equals going beyond us.

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  Envy, Laughing, Stupidity

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