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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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I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my…
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I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows.
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Chins are exclusively a human feature, not to be found among the beasts. Ithey had chins, most animals would look like each…
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When I was a young fellow I was knocked down plenty. I wanted to stay down, but I couldn't. I had to…
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The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth…
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Had double chins all the way down to his stomach.
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Dogs, bless them, operate on the premise that human beings are fragile and require incessant applications of affection and reassurance. The random…
— Mary McGrory
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If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity…
— Aesop
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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools…
— George Bernard Shaw
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I did take the blows [of life], but I took them with my chin up, in dignity, because I so profoundly love…
— Josephine Baker
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Fight each round take it on the chin. And never never never ever give in.
— Olivia Newton-John
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In any case, the bayonet isn't as important as it used to be. It's more usual now to go into the attack…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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