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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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Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
— Bashar al-Assad
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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When I see brokenness, poverty and crime in inner cities, I also see the enormous potential and readiness for transformation and rebirth.…
— Lily Yeh
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
— H. L. Mencken
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It is a doctrine of war not to assume the enemy will not come, but rather to rely on one's readiness to…
— Sun Tzu
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I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
— Thucydides
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In the beginning of his human life man was embryonic in the world of the matrix. There he received capacity and endowment…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
— Alexander Pope
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Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to…
— Winston Churchill
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The readiness is all.
— William Shakespeare
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Sannyas is the art of flying... the art that stops the process of gravitation and starts the process of grace. All that…
— Rajneesh
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