"The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of……" — William Makepeace Thackeray
"The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected."
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William Makepeace Thackeray
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183 Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray
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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…
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At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and…
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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…
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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…
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What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults…
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent…
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For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure…
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with proud stomachs.
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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of…
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You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between…
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Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
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I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
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I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick…
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Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human…
— Horace Mann
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Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other…
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For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent…
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Sometimes, we don't get what we want. . . But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while,…
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The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some…
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Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the…
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I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those…
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