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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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Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

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It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

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Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

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What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

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I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

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A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: July 18th, 1811

Died: December 24th, 1863

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