“To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.”
Source: The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy
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Famous William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
“Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”
“No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.”
Source: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers
Source: Miscellanies: Catherine. Titmarsch among pictures and books. Fraser miscellanies. Christmas books. Ballads
Source: Henry Esmond: The English Humourists; The Four Georges
“The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.”
Source: The Newcomes : memoirs of a most respectable family
Source: The Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: With Illustrations by the Author, and with Introductory Notes Setting Forth the History of the Several Works in Twenty-two Volumes