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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Fashnable fax and polite annygoats.
William Makepeace Thackeray
And whenever he spoke (which he did almost always), he took care to produce the very finest and longest words of which the vocabulary gave him the use, rightly judging that it was as cheap to employ a handsome, large, and sonorous epithet, as to use a little stingy one.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Oh, Vanity of vanities How wayward the decrees of Fate are How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are.
William Makepeace Thackeray
It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Fashnable fax and polite annygoats.
William Makepeace Thackeray
And whenever he spoke (which he did almost always), he took care to produce the very finest and longest words of which the vocabulary gave him the use, rightly judging that it was as cheap to employ a handsome, large, and sonorous epithet, as to use a little stingy one.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Oh, Vanity of vanities How wayward the decrees of Fate are How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are.
William Makepeace Thackeray
It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
William Makepeace Thackeray