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William Makepeace Thackeray has 191 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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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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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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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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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 only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
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This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is - A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes,…
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When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo…
— William Hazlitt
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Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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And the fruits will outdo what the flowers have promised.
— Francois de Malherbe
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Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo…
— Swami Vivekananda
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In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes.…
— Miles Davis
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All organizations start with WHY, but only the great ones keep their WHY clear year after year. Those who forget WHY they…
— Simon Sinek
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Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.
— Paul Weyrich
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