He loved libraries:
''It seems to me one cannot sit down in [the British Museum's Reading Room] without a heart full of grateful reverence,'' Thackeray wrote in 1860. ''I own to have said my grace at the table, and to have thanked Heaven for this my English birthright, freely to partake of these beautiful books, and speak the truth I find there.''
As do I!
He loved Jane Eyre:
"Thackeray provided such a positive review of Jane Eyre that Charlotte Bronte dedicated the second edition to him." He declared it a work "of great genius."
As did I!
And we totally look alike:
