To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYLove seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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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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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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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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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.
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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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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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