“To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; and to forgo even ambition when the end is gained — who can say this is not greatness?”

— William Makepeace Thackeray, book The Virginians

Source: The Virginians (1857-1859), Ch. 92.

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novelist 1811–1863

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