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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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What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
— Aeschylus
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New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
— James Agate
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To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something…
— Bobby Bowden
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Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it,…
— Akhenaton
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I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every…
— Tucker Carlson
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Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.
— Samuel Pepys
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I like to go to parties where I know everyone. How are you going to have fun with people you don't know?
— Mary-Kate Olsen
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The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story…
— Melody Beattie
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Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps…
— Melody Beattie
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Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe that there is a…
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and…
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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I had a New Year's kiss once. But it was like, 'Let's start the year off together,' and then we wound up…
— Joe Jonas
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