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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 argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused…
— Conrad Black
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In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
— William Hazlitt
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Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have…
— Thomas Jefferson
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No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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If the Church has no the authority to tell its members that they may not engage in homosexual practices, then it has…
— Orson Scott Card
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In some sense we are all hypocrites in transition.
— Erwin McManus
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There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her…
— Arthur Helps
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Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe…
— Ambrose Bierce
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We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in upscale developments with armed security guards - and who want to…
— Thomas Sowell
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Heaven or Hell? You make it seem as if that's an easy choice to make. Sitting there in heaven watching others burn,…
— Deborah Pryce
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