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I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do—a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.
— William Makepeace Thackeray The Book of Snobs
Tags: writing, writers, providence, destiny

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It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.
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