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When we say of a gentleman that he lives elegantly on nothing a year, we use the word

When we say of a gentleman that he lives elegantly on nothing a year, we use the word "nothing" to signify something unknown; meaning, simply, that we don't know how the gentleman in question defrays the expenses of his establishment.

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Everyone knows the harm the bad do, but who knows the mischief done by the good? - William M. Thackeray Quotes

Everyone knows the harm the bad do, but who knows the mischief done by the good?

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Always remember to take the door-key. - William M. Thackeray Quotes

Always remember to take the door-key.

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Always remember to take the door-key. - William M. Thackeray Quotes

Always remember to take the door-key.

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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed. - William M. Thackeray Quotes

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

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Then sing as Martin Luther sang:

Then sing as Martin Luther sang:"Who loves not wine, woman, and song,He is a fool his whole life long!"

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Fools And Foolishness

That which we call a snob by any other name would still be snobbish - William M. Thackeray Quotes

That which we call a snob by any other name would still be snobbish

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He that hath ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton. - William M. Thackeray Quotes

He that hath ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.

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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it - who can say this is not greatness? - William M. Thackeray Quotes

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it - who can say this is not greatness?

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Humor is wit and love. - William M. Thackeray Quotes

Humor is wit and love.

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Who misses, or who wins the prize?
Go, lose and conquer as you can:
But if you fail, or if you rise,
Be each, pray God, a gentleman. - William M. Thackeray Quotes

Who misses, or who wins the prize? Go, lose and conquer as you can: But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman.

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There lived a sage in days of yore,
And he a handsome pigtail wore;
But wondered much and sorrowed more
Because it hung behind him. - William M. Thackeray Quotes

There lived a sage in days of yore, And he a handsome pigtail wore; But wondered much and sorrowed more Because it hung behind him.

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The play is done; the curtain drops,
Slow falling to the prompter's bell
A moment yet the actor stops
And looks around to say farewell.
It is an irksome word and task:
And when he's laughed and said his say,
He shows, as he removes the mask,
A face that's anything but gay. - William M. Thackeray Quotes

The play is done; the curtain drops, Slow falling to the prompter's bell A moment yet the actor stops And looks around to say farewell. It is an irksome word and task: And when he's laughed and said his say, He shows, as he removes the mask, A face that's anything but gay.

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Life is the soul's nursery -
Its training place for the destinies of eternity. - William M. Thackeray Quotes

Life is the soul's nursery - Its training place for the destinies of eternity.

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So he sighed and pined and ogled,
And his passion boiled and bubbled,
Till he blew his silly brains out,
And no more was by it troubled. - William M. Thackeray Quotes

So he sighed and pined and ogled, And his passion boiled and bubbled, Till he blew his silly brains out, And no more was by it troubled.

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Who misses, or who wins the prize? Go, lose and conquer as you can: But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman. - William M. Thackeray Quotes

Who misses, or who wins the prize? Go, lose and conquer as you can: But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman.

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There lived a sage in days of yore, And he a handsome pigtail wore; But wondered much and sorrowed more Because it hung behind him. - William M. Thackeray Quotes

There lived a sage in days of yore, And he a handsome pigtail wore; But wondered much and sorrowed more Because it hung behind him.

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The play is done; the curtain drops, Slow falling to the prompter's bell A moment yet the actor stops And looks around to say farewell. It is an irksome word and task: And when he's laughed and said his say, He shows, as he removes the mask, A face that's anything but gay. - William M. Thackeray Quotes

The play is done; the curtain drops, Slow falling to the prompter's bell A moment yet the actor stops And looks around to say farewell. It is an irksome word and task: And when he's laughed and said his say, He shows, as he removes the mask, A face that's anything but gay.

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Life is the soul's nursery - Its training place for the destinies of eternity. - William M. Thackeray Quotes

Life is the soul's nursery - Its training place for the destinies of eternity.

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So he sighed and pined and ogled, And his passion boiled and bubbled, Till he blew his silly brains out, And no more was by it troubled. - William M. Thackeray Quotes

So he sighed and pined and ogled, And his passion boiled and bubbled, Till he blew his silly brains out, And no more was by it troubled.

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Ah vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of fate are, How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are - William M. Thackeray Quotes

Ah vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of fate are, How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are

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Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out. - William M. Thackeray Quotes

Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

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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 M. Thackeray Quotes

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!

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Books And Reading

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? - William M. Thackeray Quotes

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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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. - William M. Thackeray Quotes

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

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What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes. - William M. Thackeray Quotes

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

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Boys

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you. - William M. Thackeray Quotes

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited. - William M. Thackeray Quotes

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

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It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it. - William M. Thackeray Quotes

It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.

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Faith

'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult. - William M. Thackeray Quotes

'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

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Faith

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs. - William M. Thackeray Quotes

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

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Friends Or Friendship

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors. - William M. Thackeray Quotes

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

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It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. - William M. Thackeray Quotes

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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English Novelist Infatuation

I would rather make my name than inherit it. - William M. Thackeray Quotes

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! -- what worthy man does not keep those in mind? - William M. Thackeray Quotes

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! -- what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

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English Novelist Injury

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel. - William M. Thackeray Quotes

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

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It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England. - William M. Thackeray Quotes

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

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Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it. - William M. Thackeray Quotes

Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it.

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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained -- who can say this is not greatness? - William M. Thackeray Quotes

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained -- who can say this is not greatness?

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Great Life Perseverance

Whenever he met a great man he groveled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do. - William M. Thackeray Quotes

Whenever he met a great man he groveled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do.

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Certain it is that scandal is good brisk talk, whereas praise of one's neighbor is by no means lively hearing. An acquaintance grilled, scored, devilled, and served with mustard and cayenne pepper excites the appetite; whereas a slice of cold friend with currant jelly is but a sickly, unrelishing meat. - William M. Thackeray Quotes

Certain it is that scandal is good brisk talk, whereas praise of one's neighbor is by no means lively hearing. An acquaintance grilled, scored, devilled, and served with mustard and cayenne pepper excites the appetite; whereas a slice of cold friend with currant jelly is but a sickly, unrelishing meat.

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Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. - William M. Thackeray Quotes

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

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I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses. - William M. Thackeray Quotes

I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

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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. - William M. Thackeray Quotes

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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inspirational Success

The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. - William M. Thackeray Quotes

The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.

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Writers And Writing

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