William Makepeace Thackeray: Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the…
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.
In today’s wordsLearn to admire the right things; that is the great pleasure of life. Notice what great people admired: they admired great things, while narrow-minded people admire the wrong things and worship small ones.
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