Whatever you are, try to be a good one. — William Makepeace Thackeray · Skopia

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Autobiography and memoir

Whatever you are, try to be a good one.

William Makepeace Thackeray

1897

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

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