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William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes: Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are…

Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.

("Vanity Fair")

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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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Life is the soul's nursery - its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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A person can't help their birth.
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Our great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they can not separate from our consciousness, shall follow it whithersoever that shall go, and are of their nature divine and immortal.
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It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
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