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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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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Terrorism needs to be fought against and certainly delegitimized or attacked, but some of the underlying grievances that might in fact lead…
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It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.
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If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
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He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled.…
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I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I thought you…
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State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the…
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I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick you could cut it…
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Do not wish for quick results, nor look for small advantages. If you seek quick results, you will not reach the ultimate…
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Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely…
— Andre Weil
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It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,'…
— Albert Einstein
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Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
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