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«What a deal of grief, care, and other harmful excitement does a healthy dullness and insensibility avoid!»
«Dinners are given mostly in the middle classes by way of revenge.»
«Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.»
«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.»
«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.»
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
(Author, Novelist)
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purport, purporting, purports, volume
«I'm no angel.»
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