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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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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
— Aristotle
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What we play is life.
— Louis Armstrong
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Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.
— Neil Armstrong
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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
— Margaret Atwood
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Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich,…
— Margaret Atwood
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Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
— Saint Augustine
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To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
— Marcus Aurelius
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When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to…
— Teresa of Avila
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