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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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Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
— Honore de Balzac
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It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest…
— Dirk Benedict
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The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art…
— William Blake
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In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
— Samuel Butler
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In the late '70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn't do…
— Robert Carlyle
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It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice…
— Warren Christopher
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I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical…
— Tori Amos
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You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.
— Aristotle
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A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.
— Sigmund Freud
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See, that's the thing about second chances. It's two people that are there for each other and support each other and care…
— Jacqueline Kelly
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