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William Makepeace Thackeray föddes den July 18th 1811 och dog den 24 December 1863 - of 'Vanity Fair'.
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 The play is done; the curtain drops,
Slow falling to the prompter's bell
A moment yet the actor stops
And looks around to say farewell.
It is an irksome word and task:
And when he's laughed and said his say,
He shows, as he removes the mask,
A face that's anything but gay.

 The rose upon my balcony the morning air perfuming,

Was leafless all the winter time and pining for the spring.

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

 The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

 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?

 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!

 The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

 The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion.

 The world is good-natured to people who are good natured.

 Them's my sentiments

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

 There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

 There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

 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.

 There will be more wars until men grow brave enough to stop them


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