Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIs beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained – who can say this is not greatness?
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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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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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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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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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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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