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William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray föddes den 18 juli 1811 och dog den 24 desember 1863 - of 'Vanity Fair'.
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Nymodighet har en charm som våra sinnen knappt kan klara.

Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand

Nymodighet

Ah vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of fate are, How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are

Tomhet

How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy!

Then sing as Martin Luther sang:
"Who loves not wine, woman, and song,
He is a fool his whole life long!"

The world has battle-room for all.
Go fight and conquer if ye can.
But if ye rise or if ye fall,
Be each, pray God, a gentleman!

If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

> A Tragic Story
> --- William M. Thackeray
>
> There lived a sage in days of yore,
> And he a handsome pigtail wore;
> But wondered much, and sorrowed more,
> Because it hung behind him.
>
> He mused upon this curious case,
> And swore he'd change the pigtail's place,
> And have it hanging at his face,
> Not dangling there behind him.
>
> Says he, "Ah, the mystery I've found--
> I'll turn me round,"
> --he turned him round;
> But still it hung behind him.
>
> Then round and round, and out and in,
> All day the puzzled sage did spin;
> In vain--it mattered not a pin--
> The pigtail hung behind him.
>
> And right, and left, and round about,
> And up, and down, and in, and out
> He turned; but still the pigtail stout
> Hung steadily behind him.
>
> And though his efforts never slack,
> And though he twist, and twirl, and tack,
> Alas! Still faithful to his back,
> The pigtail hangs behind him.

Nothing like blood, sir, in hosses, dawgs, and men

I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year

Whenever he met a great man he groveled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do.

As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run. . . . What an interest it imparts to life!

Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds.

But Fate is stronger than all of us, and willed what has come to pass.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it

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