To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThe world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don’t know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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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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You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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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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