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William Makepeace Thackeray has 191 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?
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Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the…
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At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the…
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Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
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There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of…
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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style…
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he…
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What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she…
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be…
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There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.
— Dwight L. Moody
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Have a great love for Jesus in his divine Sacrament of Love; that is the divine oasis of the desert. It is…
— Peter Julian Eymard
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When the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into the drowned…
— Thomas Dolby
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The fun of working on the road means stealing from hotels. I've been doing it for so long, I have a set…
— Joan Rivers
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We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the…
— Herman Melville
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Don't touch the ark of God! It is the God of Israel who is wounding people with regards to their sin. Do…
— Paul Washer
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The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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Plan ahead: It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
— Richard Cushing
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
— Ted Shackelford
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If zoos are like arks, then rare animals are like passengers on a voyage of the damned, never to find a port…
— Peter Singer
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