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Us Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray
- What part of confidante has that poor teapot played ever since the kindlyplant was introduced among us. Why myriads of women have cried over it,…
- Our great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they can not separate from our consciousness, shall follow it…
- Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
- Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious, - a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the senses,…
- Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
- Pray God, keep us simple.
- If love lives through all life; and survives through all sorrow; and remains steadfast with us through all changes; and in all darkness of spirit…
- 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…
- A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like…
- Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
- Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us…
- 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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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle