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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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'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest; not to…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
— Edmund Burke
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The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good…
— Eric Cantona
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I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great…
— George Carey
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Hunger's a great spur.
— Robert Carlyle
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The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants,…
— Alan Greenspan
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Let the boy win his spurs.
— Edward III of England
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Violent fires soon burn out themselves, small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; he tires betimes that spurs too fast.
— William Shakespeare
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious…
— John Milton
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My last year with the Spurs, I was late to practice one time.
— Dennis Rodman
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The Spurs couldn't put everything aside and just play the damn game.
— Dennis Rodman
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Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave…
— Albert Einstein
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