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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 rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.
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As to sagacity, I should say that his judgement respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room is infallible,…
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We have taught our people to use prayer too much as a means of comfort - not in the original and heroic…
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You would have to say his number one accomplishment has been to inspire a sense of confidence in the country. That confidence,…
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It's definitely a shock to go from being 15 in high school to working. There's no real cushion there. There's no preparation…
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I invested. I wanted to cushion the future. Im a financial success!
— Joanna Kerns
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Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal.
— Ernest K. Gann
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In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.
— Jack Kornfield
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Speed is the cushion of sloppiness.
— Unknown Author
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Sitting peacefully on a cushion day and night seeking to attain Buddhahood, rejecting life and death in hopes of realizing enlightenment, is…
— Unknown Author
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
— Wally Lamb
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On every commercial flight, the traveler is told, "Your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device". The question is, why…
— Sam Ewing
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