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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Choice Economics Friendship Goodness Wisdom
Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Death Exception Happiness Sorry
What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Charm Money Peace
Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Different Eyes Money Value
A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Enemy Fools Himself See
Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, “Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.”
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Fools Himself Life Song Wine Woman
Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Change Expectation Marriage Person
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Diamond Life Reality
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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Bright Enough Eyes Flame Forget Life Man Possession Reward
Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Big Fools Love Small
The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Decision Eyes Greatness Hands Life Lips Moments Talk World
Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Beautiful Eyes Ourselves Perspective Philosophy
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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Angry Creation Harm Intend Ourselves Wound
No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Custom Exception Habit Live Motivational
One of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Fortune God Greatness Man Quality Success
If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Fools Man Wisdom Yourself

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