Famous quote by William Makepeace Thackeray

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"If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!"

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This quote is written / told by William Makepeace Thackeray between July 18, 1811 and December 24, 1863. He/she was a famous Novelist from England. The author also have 30 other quotes.

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"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested"

"The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down"

"No two persons ever read the same book"

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon"

"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language"

John Donne, Poet

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book"

"History is a set of lies agreed upon"

"There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts"

"Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time"

"Beware of the person of one book"