To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYVanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don’t want a rose to sing.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained – who can say this is not greatness?
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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