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

Makepeace, William Thackery. Quoted in A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs by Laurence Hutton. 1899.

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