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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
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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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Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
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A person can’t help their birth.
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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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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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Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute’s delay or advance.
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Destiny Fate Glimpse Machine Ourselves Past Time
An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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