To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYA cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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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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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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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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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don’t know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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