Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYMoney has only a different value in the eyes of each.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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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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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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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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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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Pray God, keep us simple.
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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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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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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Humor is wit and love.
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When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
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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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