Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.
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William Makepeace Thackeray
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About William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray was an English novelist and illustrator. He is known for his satirical works, particularly his 1847–1848 novel Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of British society, and the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon, which was adapted for a 1975 film by Stanley Kubrick.
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It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
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.
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
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 exci…
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.