Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThere are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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