More from William Makepeace Thackeray

  1. 'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Master Harry--every man of every nation has done that--'tis the living up to it that is diff…
  2. There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.
  3. 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…
  4. The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is for ever in a passion.
  5. As the gambler said of his dice, to love and win is the best thing, to love and lose is the next best.
  6. Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.
  7. 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…
  8. I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

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