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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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If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
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He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled.…
— Laozi
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When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and…
— Cicely Tyson
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Those who read books cannot understand the teachings and, what's more, may even go astray. But those who try to observe the…
— Buddhadasa
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Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Be aware, and wine becomes water. Be aware - sex becomes love. Be aware - love becomes prayer. Be aware - prayer…
— Rajneesh
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The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go…
— Sophocles
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We go astray when we think that we can do spiritual work without spiritual power.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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To live in the Great Way is neither easy nor difficult, but those with limited views are fearful and irresolute: the faster…
— Sengcan
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I look upon Virginia as a rib taken from Britain's side... While they both proceed as living under the marriage-compact, this Eve…
— Unknown Author
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Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may…
— William Osler
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Small rooms and dwellings set the mind on the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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