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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 might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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His [Calvin's] religion was demonism. If ever man worshiped a false God, he did. The being described in his five points is…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of…
— Richard Dawkins
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If there is anything in life in which I take a pardonable pride, it is my friendship for certain old woodsmen and…
— Archibald Rutledge
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It is pardonable to be defeated, but never to be surprised.
— Frederick The Great
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There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.
— Samuel Richardson
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend…
— Victor Hugo
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It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.
— John le Carre
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If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
— William Congreve
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