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Better Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray
- At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the least headache in…
- Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to be forced to…
- If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?
- Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always…
- It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
- What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him…
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