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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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Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
— Winston Churchill
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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.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity,…
— Antoine Rivarol
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No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.
— George Bernard Shaw
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If I was not a remarkably modest man, I should probably brag a little, and say that I had done what no…
— P T Barnum
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Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Atlee is a very modest man. And with reason.
— Winston Churchill
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He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.' Gothos' Folly
— Steven Erikson
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A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.
— E. W. Howe
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