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William Makepeace Thackeray - The Newcomes (1855)

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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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The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

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What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.

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The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts: but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?

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Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.

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A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath him.

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When a mother, as fond mothers will; vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to know a great deal too much.

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William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray
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Born: July 18, 1811
Died: December 24, 1863 (aged 52)
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