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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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I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing,…
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How wayward is this foolish love that, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse and presently, all humble, kiss the rod.
— William Shakespeare
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[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of…
— Abraham Maslow
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In the most basic way, writers are defined not by the stories they tell, or their politics, or their gender, or their…
— Donald E. Westlake
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Christ is not knocking on the door of a sinner's heart, but on the door of a wayward church.
— Paul Washer
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The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring,…
— Walter Raleigh
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Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
— Queen Elizabeth II
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Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.
— Horace
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Say to the seceded States, "Wayward sisters, depart in peace."
— Winfield Scott
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Words have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbits and enter a wider magnetic…
— David Lehman
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When the virus of restlessness begins to take possession of a wayward man, and the road away from Here seems broad and…
— John Steinbeck
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Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.
— Sophocles
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