"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
More William Makepeace Thackeray quotes
"A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
"Here is a minute. It may be my love is dead, but here is a minute to kneel over the grave and pray by it.
"Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.
"It is those who injure women who get the most kindness from them.