More from William Makepeace Thackeray

  1. It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
  2. Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
  3. Although I enter not, Yet round about the spot Ofttimes I hover; And near the sacred gate With longing eyes I wait, Expectant of her.
  4. Of the Corporation of the Goosequill--of the Press, my boy,...of the fourth estate...There she is-the great engine-she never sleeps. She ha…
  5. Ah! Vanitas vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us …
  6. As the gambler said of his dice, to love and win is the best thing, to love and lose is the next best.
  7. I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.
  8. 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 i…

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