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Them Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do. The successful people…
- What is it to be a gentleman? Is it to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise, and,…
- What is a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise; and possessed of all…
- When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don't know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle…
- Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious, - a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the senses,…
- If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we…
- Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.
- He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.
- When [men] see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her temper, her money,…
- To describe love-making is immoral and immodest; you know it is. To describe it as it really is, or would appear to you and me…
- We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors:…
- Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
- And oh, what a mercy it is that these women do not exercise their powers oftener! We can't resist them, if they do. Let them…
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- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
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- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle