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 THACKERAYThe moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don’t know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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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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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 a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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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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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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