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Book Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the…
- Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life,…
- How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.
- It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart full of grateful…
- The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.
- 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…
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