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The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a
poor
-spirited coward.
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He had placed himself at her feet so long that the
poor
little woman had been accustomed to trample upon him. She didn't wish to marry him, but she wished to keep him. She wished to give him nothing, but that he should give her all. It is a bargain not infrequently levied in love.
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Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a
poor
woman.
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Let us thank God for imparting to us,
poor
weak mortals, the inestimable blessing of vanity. How many half-witted votaries of the arts—poets, painters, actors, musicians—live upon this food, and scarcely any other!
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It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or
poor
, they are all equal now
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Who has not seen how women bully women? What tortures have men to endure compared to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which
poor
women are riddled by the tyrants of their sex?
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Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the
poor
folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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William Makepeace Thackeray
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Born:
July 18, 1811
Died:
December 24, 1863
(aged 52)
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