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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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It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
— Aristotle
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Generally speaking, I think it is unbecoming to act as a national hero, wave hands and so on.
— Unknown Author
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Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a…
— Martin Luther
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It is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly.
— Pope John Paul II
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Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.
— Leon Trotsky
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If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you…
— Epictetus
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People are rivers, always ready to move from one state of being into another. It is not fair, to treat people as…
— Unknown Author
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The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.
— Albert Schweitzer
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The decisions we make, individually and personally, become the fabric of our lives. That fabric will be beautiful or ugly according to…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.
— Socrates
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As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth -…
— Feisal Abdul Rauf
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