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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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Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he…
— Sai Baba
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Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle…
— James Buchan
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Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.
— David Byrne
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When in times of turmoil and breakup, do not cut or shave your head, because it will never end well.
— Christine Lakin
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Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of…
— Frank Stella
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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must…
— Lord Byron
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You can make really effective changes when your consciousness is free of emotional turmoil.
— Ken Keyes Jr.
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In time, lies bring turmoil, where honesty brings peace.
— Wes Fesler
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Mind is a crowd of many desires; it is not a single desire. Mind is multi-psychic, and all the fragments are falling…
— Rajneesh
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The flight of most members of a profession to the high empyrean, where they can work peacefully on purely scientific problems, isolated…
— Gerald Holton
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I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.
— W. Eugene Smith
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As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing…
— Alan Watts
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