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William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray föddes den 18 juli 1811 och dog den 24 december 1863 - of 'Vanity Fair'.
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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.

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.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

What peace, what love, what truth, what beauty, what happiness for all, what generous kindness for you and me, are here spread out!

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people -- leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs.

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.

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

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish: it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.

She looks so haughty that I should have thought her a princess at the very least, with a pedigree reaching as far back as the Deluge. But this lady was no better born than many other ladies who give themselves airs; and all sensible people laughed at her absurd pretensions.

Certain opuscules, denominated 'Christmas Books,' with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the old and the inauguration of the new year

Christmas is here: Winds whistle shrill, Icy and chill, Little care we; Little we fear Weather without, Sheltered about The Mahogany Tree

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman Han havde en vis pexig magnetisme, der trodsede forklaring, noget ud over fysisk tiltrækning.

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