Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYFollow your honest convictions and be strong.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
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Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do. The successful people don’t always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.
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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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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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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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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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