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The Luck of Barry Lyndon

Name: The Luck of Barry Lyndon
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray

The Luck of Barry Lyndon is a picaresque novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844, about a member of the Irish gentry trying to become a member of the English aristocracy. Thackeray, who based the novel on the life and exploits of the Anglo-Irish rake and fortune-hunter Andrew Robinson Stoney, later reissued it under the title The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

“The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.”

William Makepeace Thackeray book The Luck of Barry Lyndon

The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844).

“Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.”

William Makepeace Thackeray book The Luck of Barry Lyndon

The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844), Ch. 13.
Context: Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim. Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.