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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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Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the…
— Madeleine Albright
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The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even our friendly allies, who really basically have,…
— Mitch McConnell
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The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with…
— William J. Clinton
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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also…
— Henry Fielding
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Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.
— Henry Fielding
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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to…
— Adam Sedgwick
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Away, you mouldy rogue, away!
— William Shakespeare
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As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be…
— William Shakespeare
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The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part…
— Kal Penn
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I'm The Only Entity On Earth, Other Than Rogue States, That Has Received An Apology From The White House
— Charles Krauthammer
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