William Makepeace Thackeray
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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I would rather make my name than inherit it.
To endure is greater than to dare to tire out hostile fortune to be daunted by no difficulty to keep heart when all have lost it -- who can say this is not greatness
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.
Bravery never goes out of fashion.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
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For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.
I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?
I was blessed, because I come from a family where they knock you down before you float away. I have a lot of brothers who just make sure we have our feet on the ground, and my mom is a rock star. She is an amazing mother.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
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