"There is no good in living in a……" — William Makepeace Thackeray
"There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors."
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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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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates…
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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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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state…
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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because…
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person,…
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than…
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From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic…
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen…
— Honore de Balzac
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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not…
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His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.
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