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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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We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men.
— Henry David Thoreau
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As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may…
— Thomas Paine
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Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he…
— Samuel Johnson
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Say and do what you mean, but never say and do it meanly.
— Harvey Mackay
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It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.
— John Milton
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The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but…
— Edith Wharton
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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must…
— Abraham Lincoln
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We do ourselves wrong, and too meanly estimate the holiness above us, when we deem that any act or enjoyment good in…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right.
— Thomas Paine
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Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.
— Vance Havner
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