Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYWomen are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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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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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
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One of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
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