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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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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
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If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let…
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We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.
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Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is…
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It's very easy for people to be critical of President Obama's first term, but let's face it, he didn't exactly inherit the…
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I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced…
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The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion,…
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In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.
— Eric Hoffer
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To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.
— Henry David Thoreau
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They (Women Marines) don't have a nickname, and they don't need one. They get their basic training in a Marine atmosphere, at…
— Thomas Holcomb
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Everything is blurred on what's right and what's wrong ... Sin becomes fine. Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from…
— Phil Robertson
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