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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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When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.
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Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and…
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Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.
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This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is - A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes,…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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My mother, on Sundays, used to prepare things to use during the week, like freshly made broth. It wasn't chicken stock or…
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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots…
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prepare a little hot tea or broth and it should be brought to them . . . without their being asked if…
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She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.
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Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a…
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Too many cooks spoil the broth
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