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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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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how…
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Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.
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We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are…
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Many Christians have so busied themselves with programs and activities that they no longer know how to be silent and meditate on…
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No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely…
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A daughter of a King of Ireland, heard A voice singing on a May Eve like this, And followed half awake and…
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It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to…
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I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct,…
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