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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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Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
— Hosea Ballou
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My little children, your hearts, are small, but prayer stretches them and makes them capable of loving God. Through prayer we receive…
— John Vianney
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Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never…
— William Butler Yeats
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The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Aren't grown up people just little children at heart?
— Adolphe Menjou
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Notwithstanding all that has been discovered since Newton's time, his saying that we are little children picking up pretty pebbles on the…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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What constitutes success? She who has achieved success has lived well; laughed often and loved much; has gained the respect of little…
— Bessie Anderson Stanley
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The most amazing thing about little children ... was their fantastic adaptability.
— Kristin Hunter
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
— Camille Pissarro
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I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.
— George Bernard Shaw
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When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose He means also, that we must be…
— George Whitefield
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When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or children with…
— Marian Wright Edelman
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