Whatever you are, try to be a good one.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Self-improvement Personal growth

Speaker

William Makepeace Thackeray

Source

A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1897 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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India Asia

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Citation

Thackeray, William Makepeace. Quoted in A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs, written by Laurence Hutton. London: Harper & Brothers, 1898.

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God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well! Woman was God's second mistake.

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Time
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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Der Antichrist [The Antichrist]. 1895, no. 48.

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Joan Didion

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Joan Didion
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On Keeping a Notebook Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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Citation

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