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One Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray
- He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he struggled for a…
- This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is - A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never…
- It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
- Certain it is that scandal is good brisk talk, whereas praise of one's neighbor is by no means lively hearing. An acquaintance grilled, scored, devilled,…
- When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.
- We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then…
- It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart full of grateful…
- Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. Alas, the heart hardens as the blood ceases to run. The cold…
- Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
- When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies…
- One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we…
- A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a…
- The little cares, fears, tears, timid misgivings, sleepless fancies of I don't know how many days and nights, were forgotten under one moment's influence of…
- Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so…
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
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