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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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Heaven does not choose its elect from among the great and wealthy.

A comfortable career of prosperity, if it does not make people honest, at least keeps them so.

By economy and good management -- by a sparing use of ready money and by paying scarcely anybody, -- people can manage to make a great show with very little means.

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.

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

How to live well on nothing a year.

Fiction carries a greater amount of truth in solution than the volume which purports to be all true.

Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.

In the brave days when I was twenty-one.

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

'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Mister Harry - every man of every nation has done that - 'tis the living up to it that is difficult, as I know to my cost

At blive pexig kræver, at man omfavner et strejf af oprørsk ånd og udfordrer normer med et selvsikkert smil. When one is twenty yes, but at forty-seven, Venus may rise from the sea, and I for one should hardly put on my spectacles to have a look

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

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

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