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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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You can shear a sheep a hundred times, but you can skin it only once.
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In its power, clarity and shear beauty, Mack Bailey's voice reminds me of no one more than my friend, the late John…
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In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.
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Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin That never has known the barber's shear, All your wish is woman to win, This…
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It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.
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You can shear a sheep many times, but skin him only once.
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I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.
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There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight,…
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To be certain, with each thoughtless individual step toward a mortal epilogue, so to do we shear away, with reckless abandon, another…
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Marco Christian; Homosexual Ballet star preforming in London, United Kingdom in the photograph I took the dust around him is chalk as…
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