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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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When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.
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Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamor of silence.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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When a man goes on a date he wonders if he is going to get lucky. A woman already knows.
— Unknown Author
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[P]erfect freedom consists in obeying the dictates of right reason, and submitting to natural law. When a man goes beyond or contrary…
— Samuel West
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You can't be common, the common man goes nowhere; you have to be uncommon
— Herb Brooks
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Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than…
— Leonard Michaels
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You can see the ball go past them, or the man, but you'll never see both man and ball go past at…
— Ron Atkinson
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There are endless ways to amuse oneself and be idle, and most of them lie outside the woods. I assume that when…
— Wendell Berry
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Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.
— C.S. Lewis
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Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Man goes nowhere. Everything comes to man, like tomorrow.
— Antonio Porchia
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Every trial a man goes through, if he is faithful in that trial and does honor to God and his religion he…
— Lorenzo Snow
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