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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 bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants…
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I just didn't feel comfortable hitting a wedge. To me it's against the spirit of the game, and maybe it would have…
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Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman.
— Edward Abbey
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The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest Pole --…
— Karl Marx
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Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than…
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But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. Whether I'm…
— Michel Hazanavicius
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I am the most un-French Frenchman you will ever meet.
— Jean-Marie Messier
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Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.
— Horatio Nelson
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Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with…
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