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"No, you are not worthy of the love which I have devoted to you. I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning; that I was a fool, with fond fancies, too, bartering away my all of truth and ardour against your little feeble remnant of love. I will bargain no more: I withdraw."	William Makepeace Thackeray	Vanity Fair
A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes.	William Makepeace Thackeray	Vanity Fair
The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.	William Makepeace Thackeray	Vanity Fair
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children . . .	William Makepeace Thackeray	Vanity Fair
The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.	William Makepeace Thackeray	The Newcomes
The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts: but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?	William Makepeace Thackeray	The Newcomes
"'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Master Harry--every man of every nation has done that--'tis the living up to it that is difficult . . . "	William Makepeace Thackeray	The History of Henry Esmond
'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.	William Makepeace Thackeray	The History of Henry Esmond
. . . 'tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.	William Makepeace Thackeray	The History of Henry Esmond
He had placed himself at her feet so long that the poor little woman had been accustomed to trample upon him. She didn't wish to marry him, but she wished to keep him. She wished to give him nothing, but that he should give her all. It is a bargain not unfrequently levied in love.	William Makepeace Thackeray	Vanity Fair

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