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William Makepeace Thackeray

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

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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."
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"Bravery never goes out of fashion."
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"Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?"
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"It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob."
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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!"
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"There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write."
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"Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman."
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"The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face."
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"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."
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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."

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