William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells?

William Makepeace Thackeray

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• Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

  

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• Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells?

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Moments
  • Brother
  • Sick