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At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the least headache in the morning, I give you my word; on the contrary, you only wake with a sweet refreshing thirst for claret and water.
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It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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That acknowledgment of weakness which we make in imploring to be relieved from hunger and from temptation is surely wisely put in our daily prayer. Think of it, you who are rich, and take heed how you turn a beggar away.
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The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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There's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief that is very curious to watch . . . I am sure that horrid matter-of-fact child-rearers . . . do away with the child's most beautiful privilege. I am determined that Anny shall have a very extensive and instructive store of learning in Tom Thumbs, Jack-the-Giant-Killers, etc.
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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.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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...the greatest tyrants over women are women.
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Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.
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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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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.
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The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.
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What is wanted for the nonce is, that folks should be as agreeable as possible in conversation and demeanor; so that good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in societ.
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The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Ah! gracious Heaven gives us eyes to see our own wrong, however dim age may make them; and knees not too stiff to kneel, in spite of years, cramp, and rheumatism.
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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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The best of women are hypocrites.
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Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful nights, and so forth; but it is only in very sentimental novels that people occupy themselves perpetually with that passion, and I believe what are called broken hearts are a very rare article indeed.
William Makepeace Thackeray