It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYTo love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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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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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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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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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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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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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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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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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
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