William M. Thackeray Quote: Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for o…

Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

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Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.