William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it. Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. People hate as they love, unreasonably. People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited. Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman. The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion. The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new. The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write. There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa. 'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel. To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes. When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole. When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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