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Letter "W" » William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
«Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.»
«In the brave days when I was twenty-one.»
«It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.»
«'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Mister Harry - every man of every nation has done that - 'tis the living up to it that is difficult, as I know to my cost»
«When one is twenty yes, but at forty-seven, Venus may rise from the sea, and I for one should hardly put on my spectacles to have a look»
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
(Author, Novelist)
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forty-seven, have a look, seven seas
«That which we call a snob by any other name would still be snobbish»
«The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.»
«He that hath ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.»
«How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy!»
«The world has battle-room for all.Go fight and conquer if ye can.But if ye rise or if ye fall,Be each, pray God, a gentleman!»
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