William Makepeace Thackeray
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When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
I would rather make my name than inherit it.
A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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
Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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I get along with guys most of my friends are guys. It's easier to trust men sometimes. I only have a few close girlfriends that I trust.
Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.
What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?
I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.
As it seems to me, the poetry of the highest rank or the most real verses isn't created anywhere, except dramatic situation, or when Melpomene wins a victory over Euterpe.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.
Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.
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