To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYWhen 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.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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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.
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Love 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?
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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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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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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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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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
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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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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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