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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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'Passione' is a selection of the music moments that have accompanied my youth; a collection of cherished memories, of moments, of fleeting…
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Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely…
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God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood dragging through…
— Sylvia Plath
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A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers,…
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What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights!
— Emile M. Cioran
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Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
— Abraham Lincoln
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I think, you know, it was something that I really wanted. I wanted so much to have a son or daughter. We…
— Connie Chung
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You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and…
— J. Reuben Clark
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At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.
— William Faulkner
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I am thinking of you in my sleepless solitude tonight.
— Mariah Carey
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To have something to say is a question of sleepless nights and worry and endless ratiocination of subject - of endless trying…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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