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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?

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do. The successful people don’t always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.
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Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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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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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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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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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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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Humor is wit and love.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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