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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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Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democracy'. There…
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Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people
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One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.
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As everything in this world is but a sham. Death is the only sincerity.
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What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other…
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Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.
— John Dewey
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There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with…
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Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the…
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Our two-party system is a fraud, a sham, a delusion. On foreign policy, trade, immigration, Big Government, we have one-party government, one…
— Pat Buchanan
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To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.
— Richard Dawkins
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Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a…
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