Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare i…

William Makepeace Thackeray
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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb. ✨ William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). Miscellanies: The memoirs of Barry Lyndon. The history of Samuel Titmarsh and the great Hoggarty diamond. Burlesques, p.116
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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb. ✨ William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). Miscellanies: The memoirs of Barry Lyndon. The history of Samuel Titmarsh and the great Hoggarty diamond. Burlesques, p.116

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