Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThe world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
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Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
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