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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“You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with someone else.”
“The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
“A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all—that is myself.”
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.”
“My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.”
“One must learn to know oneself before knowing anything else.”