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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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The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
— Honore de Balzac
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The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No…
— H. L. Mencken
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Non-criminal sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for the virtuous woman except in the rarest of cases.
— Phyllis Schlafly
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I can think of nothing in the world like the utter littleness, the paltriness, the contemptibleness, the degradation, of the woman who…
— Mary MacLane
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Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.
— Phyllis Schlafly
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Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.
— William E. Gladstone
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All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.
— Mary MacLane
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I thank God that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman.
— Belle Boyd
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