Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYLife is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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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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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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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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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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