More from William Makepeace Thackeray

  1. Good humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.
  2. Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for any one who dies.
  3. She looks so haughty that I should have thought her a princess at the very least, with a pedigree reaching as far back as the Deluge. But t…
  4. Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
  5. This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is- A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never could outd…
  6. 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 …
  7. 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 …
  8. Christmas is here: Winds whistle shrill, Icy and chill. Little care we; Little we fear Weather without, Sheltered about The Mahogany Tree.

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