"What money is better bestowed than that of……" — William Makepeace Thackeray
"What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes."
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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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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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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove…
— P T Barnum
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Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
— Ambrose Bierce
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There are people who have never been taught anything, and know everything, have never been anywhere, and understand everything, have…
— Sholom Aleichem
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What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.
— Robert Breault
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Prayer is not appointed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed…
— Arthur W. Pink
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That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity,…
— Ben Jonson
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One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The…
— Susan Sontag
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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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In the beginning of his human life man was embryonic in the world of the matrix. There he received capacity…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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I remember watching Mel Gibson on some show once, and he was being asked about his belief in the afterlife.…
— Hugh Laurie
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