Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIt’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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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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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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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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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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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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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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