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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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Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
— Abu Bakr
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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world.…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation.…
— Edward Hoagland
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Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives; I…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.
— Ayn Rand
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He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.
— Thomas Paine
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Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.
— James Russell Lowell
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I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience…
— Albert Einstein
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Although I cannot believe that the individual survives the death of his body, feeble souls harbor such thought through fear or ridiculous…
— Albert Einstein
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Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.
— Victor Hugo
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From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the…
— Louis Kronenberger
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The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
— Alfred de Vigny
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