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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 | |
| 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 | |
| "Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural." | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | |
| What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is! | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | |
| Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts . . . | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | |
| If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is. | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | |
| If a man has committed wrong in life, I don’t know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations. | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | |
