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Home Quotes & Sayings William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes (About Affection, Confidence, Friendship, Letters, Love)

William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes: Have you ever had a difference with a…

Have you ever had a difference with a dear friend? How his letters, written in the period of love and confidence, sicken and rebuke you! What a dreary mourning it is to dwell upon those vehement protests of dead affection! What lying epitaphs they make over the corpse of love! What dark, cruel comments upon Life and Vanities! Most of us have got or written drawers full of them. They are closet-skeletons which we keep and shun

("Vanity Fair")

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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best being pleased by repeated trials, to make ... pure spirits more pure.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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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.
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Novelty has charms that our mind can hardly withstand.
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