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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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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
— Stendhal
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I'm far from being reclusive. I have thirty or forty year friendships that I prefer to meeting new people. I go to…
— Kirk Kerkorian
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Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin That never has known the barber's shear, All your wish is woman to win, This…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Go along, go along quickly, and set all you have on the table for us. We don't want doughnuts, honey buns, poppy…
— Nikolai Gogol
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Imagine you're a forty-year-old, Richard," Hamilton said to me around this time, while working as a salesman at a Radio Shack in…
— Douglas Coupland
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You make your own kinds of mistakes, and I’m sure you’ll have your share of regrets in life. But commitment was never…
— Stephenie Meyer
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We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing…
— Noah Baumbach
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In 1976, I read a book by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss and knew immediately that I, too, could write a historical romance. It…
— Virginia Henley
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You make your own kinds of mistakes, and Im sure youll have your share of regrets in life. But commitment was never…
— The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn
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Forty-year-old seems to be nothing without the father's advice. Father to learn properlythe huge age gap that hurts a lot. Why do…
— Mak_786
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