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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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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and…
— Honore de Balzac
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Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Not even a collapsing world looks dark to a man who is about to make his fortune.
— Elwyn Brooks White
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He will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection that he devotes to the selection of a medium-priced…
— Jesse Lauriston Livermore
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It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk ‘his life, his fortune…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat.
— Julius Caesar
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Woman is the most superstitious animal beneath the moon. When a woman has a premonition that Tuesday will be a disaster, to…
— Edward Dahlberg
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Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When someone succeeded in quickly making a lot of money in America, people said he had made his fortune.
— Julius Streicher
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In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means;…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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