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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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It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools,…
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Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
— Jean Cocteau
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Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the…
— Phyllis McGinley
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My son did not show signs of a money deficiency until he opened his small fist in the nursery and found it…
— Erma Bombeck
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Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.
— Edmund Burke
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But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws…
— Alan Watts
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The business of education has lay[ed] the foundations for nurseries of wise and good men, to adapt our modes of teaching to…
— Benjamin Rush
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The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and…
— C.S. Lewis
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A 5 yr. old's definition of nursery school: "A place where they teach children who hit, not to hit, and children who…
— James E. Myers
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