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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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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment,…
— J. G. Ballard
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Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good…
— James Howell
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Non-comprehenders are often distressed. Not you, though-because with good humor you're blessed. After all, your thoughts went like this, I dare say:…
— Albert Einstein
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From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.
— Leonard Bernstein
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Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than…
— Ernest Renan
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And this should go without saying. That's why I'm going to say it: Drinking and driving don't mix. Do your drinking early…
— George Carlin
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The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
— William Temple
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The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
— William Temple
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Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth.
— Samuel Johnson
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The constitution of human nature" teaches us not to expect "that the persons, entrusted with the administration of the affairs of the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I was there. I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweethearts. I saw how they worked, played, fought,…
— Bob Hope
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