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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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The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak.
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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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Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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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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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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One of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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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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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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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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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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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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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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Best Hypocrisy Woman
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?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

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