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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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She poured a little social sewage into his ears.
— George Meredith
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One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often…
— Eric Hoffer
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To assume a cat's asleep is a grave mistake. He can close his eyes and keep both his ears awake.
— Aileen Fisher
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His ears were often the first thing to catch my tears.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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I have a dog and sometimes I'll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose…
— Aaron Eckhart
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I sat down to think things over a bit. While I was sitting there, a little kid about eleven or twelve years-old…
— Carl Panzram
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What do you think an artist is An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears…
— Pablo Picasso
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Destiny, quite often, is a determined parent. Mozart was hardly some naive prodigy who sat down at the keyboard and, with God…
— Twyla Tharp
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The child has a different relation to his environment from ours... the child absorbs it. The things he sees are not just…
— Maria Montessori
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But as Nature is the best guide, teaching must be the development of natural inclinations, for which purpose the teacher must watch…
— Michel de Montaigne
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And…
— Alexander Pope
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A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber.…
— John Steinbeck
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