About William Makepeace Thackeray
1811 – 1863
English novelist, author of "Vanity Fair".
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“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”
“Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.”
“Good humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.”
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“Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.”
“If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.”
“How long will men dare to call anything expedient that is not right?”
“In hidden inwardness all are Christians; who would dare deny this?”